Reading the news
Mar. 12th, 2003 02:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
weaktwosAhh, lunch. One of life's simple pleasures. I was reading www.salon.com while I grazed upon a tuna sandwich and some chips.
This article is interesting: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/03/12/foreign_aid/index.html. It discusses the extent of bribery that the U.S. must exert on various countries to try and get a vote on the security council.
What's particularly haunting is Ari Fleischer's comment of, "There are many ways to build a coalition. The Security Council is but one of them."
Clearly, the rest of the world doesn't see our threats to Iraq as mainly human rights based. Nor do they feel the threat of germ warfar like Bush does. If this impending war served more interests than just that of the United States, I feel certain that they would jump on board. After all, we're not asking for troop support, really. If the cause is right and good for the greater population, what a cherry deal to support the U.S. But alas, it is not that simple.
Any of you pro-war zealots care to comment?
This article is interesting: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/03/12/foreign_aid/index.html. It discusses the extent of bribery that the U.S. must exert on various countries to try and get a vote on the security council.
What's particularly haunting is Ari Fleischer's comment of, "There are many ways to build a coalition. The Security Council is but one of them."
Clearly, the rest of the world doesn't see our threats to Iraq as mainly human rights based. Nor do they feel the threat of germ warfar like Bush does. If this impending war served more interests than just that of the United States, I feel certain that they would jump on board. After all, we're not asking for troop support, really. If the cause is right and good for the greater population, what a cherry deal to support the U.S. But alas, it is not that simple.
Any of you pro-war zealots care to comment?
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Date: 2003-03-14 12:32 am (UTC)My grandfather that just passed away was *in* World War II, participated in the Battle of the Bulge and had his finger shot off there. He was a horrible fucking person, but I can respect him for the fact that he laid down his life for the right of people in America to be so goddamn unamerican. I can actually begin to love that asshole just because of that very fact.
And Jerusalem giving as good as they get? How in the world can you profess to care about the US killing children in Iraq when you totally just blow over the fact that Palestinian acts of violence kill such innocent children? Sounds to me like the argument should be that Isreal should be allowed to protect it's people. That Isreal is the one that is Morally Correct in that situation.
And Thank The Good Lord that we were able to go about and lead our Leave it to Beaver lives! Vive America! Thank The Good Lord that we have the opportunity to choose whether we want to believe in God, by any name, or not. Thank the Good Lord that we have the opportunity to pursue a life of happiness, if we so choose.
I want to know why, if America is such a horrible place to live, don't all these people migrate to a new country?
And of course we had to occupy Germany. That was the only int