Three questions to ask your friends, neighbors and elected government employees (politicians in office):
(1) If a foreign power occupied our country wouldn’t there be an insurgency, and wouldn’t it grow until nearly everybody was part of it?
(2) What is “victory” in Iraq? We hear a lot about staying there until a victory…..what specifically does it realistically mean? As we know, terrorism is a tactic. How is victory gained over a tactic??
(3) Some say we are there because “we want stability in the Middle East.” Isn’t the Middle East a region that has had a history of even more wars than the U.S. has had in its violent history? Do you know in how many wars, takeovers, interventions, and ‘police actions’ the U.S. has engaged? Isn’t it so that the Middle East has not been very stable? And isn’t it because they believe in retribution, violence as a way to “settle” a conflict, revenge? Will our armed presence there bring stability to the region? If we “kill all the bad guys” won’t some observers regard us as “the bad guys” and thus the planet is not really rid of them? {I KNOW we think of ourselves always as “the good guys” but is it possible that this is only our perception? Of course our intentions are good. “We have come to help you,” we tell the inhabitants of the lands we invade. That is why we had that Shock-And-Awe campaign, and stood by while all that looting was going on in Iraq. What? You don’t appreciate it? You want to drive us out of your country?! Such ingrates!!}
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