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[weaktwos]

For those of you who have not already seen me speak of Karen Kwietkowsky and her various articles regarding the war in Iraq, she has yet another thought provoking article here.

An excerpt:
Condoleezza Rice recently repeated that Saddam had represented "the most dangerous regime in the world's most dangerous region." More dangerous than North Korea in terms of direct destructive threat to US soldiers parked on the DMZ and Americans at home on the West Coast. More dangerous than Pakistan or Iran, or even Israel, in terms of weapons technology proliferation. More dangerous than the decentralized al Qaeda organization responsible for 9-11, with its leader Bin Laden still not captured. That's what she said.

We just weren't seeking liberty the right way here, folks. The road to Iraq was paved with underhanded goals on the part of the White House. The problem is, how do we make it right? Do we just withdraw and let them figure it out? Will the UN clean up our mess? We are no safer since 9/11 with this "war on terror". We have done nothing to quell the hate that breeds terrorism.

Israel isn't helping matters, either.

I tire of such purveyors of hate in this world. I am disappointed in those who follow hateful manipulators. Most of us know that war is hell. But for those of influence, war is profit.

Comments

[dangermouse74.livejournal.com]

sadlyyou really can't change people. i think it is beyond our ability to eliminate the hate that breeds terrorism, the same way we still haven't even eliminated nazis and racists. The best you can do in the short term is eliminate them or weaken them, take their power away. In the long term, if a major change is made such as they lose their power and influence, perhaps after years of evolution, with education and improved conditions, things will change. War is currently a necessarily evil, and neither side is entirely "wrong" or "right" about it either, neither is beyond reproach, the knight in shining armor. And all we can do now is rather than leaving and having things going back to what they were, try and change conditions over there, and hopefully improve quality of life and reduce the desire and power of hatemongers.