Quote:Actually, what I was getting at, I had hoped in a gentle way is that I am so sick and tired of hearing non-Muslims pointing to Saddam and using it as a justification for the Americans to go and kill or torture whomever they wish. Its as if they use the logic that, well... their leader did it so big deal if OURS DOES? It's as a way to give murder less significance, and this is just strange thinking especially from a group claiming they are "liberators."
That is a rather small minded way to view it, if i may say so. There are many, many people who do not feel this conflict is necessary or justified, and many here in the US believe it's just a political and economic ploy anyway.
Personally I feel it should have been left alone. We should have focused on our own defense and keeping our own country safe, and let the middle east continue to suffer under tyranny. it is the responsibility of the people to liberate themselves from dictators. If those people do not have the will to be free, then they do not deserve to be free.
It is a good thing that not everyone shares that view, though, or there may very well be many, many more Iraquis dead, and that situation might still be volatile - not to mention the possibilities of even greater tragedy.
We should strive for peace across the face of the world, not simply point the finger of blame and wish that the problem would go away. That is lazy, and change only happens through work.
I don't know what americans do to people over there. I'm not in it. Are you? If so, have you witnessed this brutality first hand? Or has your own media told you about it... all governments lie to their people, it is the only way to control the masses and governments seek to do exactly that - it is their idea of how to try to maintain peace while still profiting.
It is of course a terrible idea to ignore tragedy, but it is perhaps even worse to insert tragedy where there is not. The war on the whole is tragic, because of the loss of HUMAN life. Not muslim, or non-muslim. To believe differently seems to me to be the same ......... God's face - denying that all of his children are worth their lives, or that only some are really a loss, the others simply fodder for hell.
There is no excuse for war.
namaste
Mahasvapna