Comments on: It won’t end with Iraq

By: Kyara Campbell

Kyara Campbell — Fri, 03 Oct 2003 00:03:08 +0000

From my eyes I think that the war in Iraq is very sad because some losse loved ones, some lose friends, and others just losse strangers. But Know matter what we are all losing somebody even if you don’t know the person.
I also think that the war is very imporntant because it protects everyting and everybody. It protects the things and people who are most impertant to use. I don’t know everything that is going on in Iraq, but that is probaly the best thing for me and others my age or younger.that is what i have to say about the Iraq war. MAY GOD BLESS THE WORLD!!

By: Mitsu

Mitsu — Wed, 16 Jul 2003 02:59:25 +0000

You know, it’s funny, I’ve just come back to this topic after many months of watching events play out, and I just have to say, I’m shocked at how many of my predictions are so far turning out to be right on the button. Iraq’s weapons programs weren’t a threat to us, they didn’t have any ongoing connections with Al Qaeda, this war is costing us big time in every area: militarily, financially, politically, and the cost far, far exceeds the benefit. In fact, if anything, this war may well turn out to have been us sacrificing ourselves in a huge way just to rid the world of one petty tyrant.

By: tony

tony — Tue, 22 Apr 2003 13:43:15 +0000

Firstly, I believe the correct wording is that ‘Power tends to corrupt and ablolute power tends to corrupt ablolutely’.
Secondly, I wish all the people who bandy about the phrase ‘American Empire’ would at least look up the word empire in the dictionary first.

By: Al Bullock

Al Bullock — Mon, 21 Apr 2003 00:52:53 +0000

Empire building is not an American art. After WWII, we could have picked up several worn out islands in the North Sea. Fortunately we were wise enough to avoid the dollar drain of unemployed wastrels.

By: Al Bullock

Al Bullock — Mon, 21 Apr 2003 00:52:38 +0000

By: Christopher

Christopher — Mon, 24 Mar 2003 21:21:34 +0000

Regarding America and the world…

Think Leviathan on a global scale.

One group in the global nation thinks it is Leviathan. And acts like it.

In the long run, this does not work.

By: Johnathan

Johnathan — Thu, 13 Mar 2003 16:50:45 +0000

Mitsu, as was said above, 9/11 was the ultimate “blowback” for the US and its supposed allies in not working hard enough to snuff out islamofascist terrorism. As for the alleged non-connection between Iraq and OBL, that does not look too convincing to me, given how Saddam has funded terrorism vs Israel.

Anyway, Brian’s basic point makes sense to me. We are gonna Saddam down because we CAN, and once we have secured a base in the Middle East, will be in a stronger position to help undermine the other dirtbag nations in that area.

By: kenny

kenny — Mon, 24 Feb 2003 17:19:42 +0000

>My feeling is, for example, that the situation in North Korea is already a disaster beyond imagining. fareed zakaria in this week's newsweek, seems to think back channel diplomacy may work. Washington’s task now is to make China understand that what it should fear most urgently is Kim Jong Il with nukes. A nuclear North Korea will probably produce China’s strategic nightmare, which is a nuclear Japan. North Korea already has missiles that can reach Japan. Once they have nuclear weapons to place atop these missiles, Japan will almost certainly choose to create a nuclear capability for itself, to deter a potential nuclear strike. China should do anything to stop this spiral.

By: unscom

unscom — Sun, 23 Feb 2003 18:04:39 +0000

>I beleive our policy towards Iraq and the rest of the world is wastful in every area..

Let’s see…’Iraq and the rest of the world”-thats everwhere, and ‘in every area’ – that’s everything.
So…according to you, everthing we are doing in every place at every time is wrong? Talk about hyperbole!

If you want to argue that our policies aren’t perfect, fine. They aren’t.
But none ever have been or ever will be perfect.

The question is about this festering problem in Iraq. Because we have allowed it to continue so long, how many terrorists have been emboldened to attack us? How much time and resources and capital have been spent on prolonging this?

Many people in that region of the world are still living in the 7th century. They understand military strength, they see the years and years and years of UN and US proclamations and half-steps as weekness; an opportunity to attack.

If we blink here (again) the terrorists will be encouraged (again).

By: Eric_R

Eric_R — Sun, 23 Feb 2003 18:01:03 +0000

Now that we know that Iran is also acquiring a capability in Weapons of Mass Destruction…are they next? The underly thought of this initial thread (that Iraq can be an example to influence or inspire Middle East countries is grossly misplaced. The people there are more likely to be repusled by the thought of the US “zapping” any nation it finds offensive….or “capable of becoming offensive but they have not revealed their intentions yet.”

Between the delusions that (a) this will not be expensive, and (b) that people in other countries will approve and applaud, and the paranoia that the world harbors many deadly terrorist threats, we have the potential for a post-Caesar Roman Empire.

The world does harbor many who resent the US and are willing become a suicide terrorist given the opportunity and training. Becoming Rome will not deter all of them…and it will in fact spur the enlistment of even more volunteers. Rome wasn’t built in a day and it wasn’t destroyed in a day. But it was destroyed.

Unless we are willing to work toward a world that looks at the US with inspired, not fearful, eyes, this nation cannot have peace.

By: Mitsu

Mitsu — Sun, 23 Feb 2003 01:59:11 +0000

Yes, 9/11 happened, which is why we’d better be damn careful to attend to national security in a way which maximizes our, er, national security. I contend that our policy, and the way we’ve been handling it, doesn’t do this, for the many reasons I’ve tried to discuss above.

When under threat, my contention is one ought to optimize the use of resources, time, and political capital so that one goes after the greatest threats with the greatest efficiency while incurring the least cost and the least negative repercussions in the short and long term. I believe our policy towards Iraq and the rest of the world is wasteful in every area: monetarily, militarily, politically, and as such is endangering our national security at precisely the moment when we can afford it least.

By: unscom

unscom — Sat, 22 Feb 2003 22:41:09 +0000

Mitsu, >We have NOT followed the same policy..

…but then 9/11 happened. Some things have changed because of that. Now, not enforcing international agreements carries a bigger penalty by encouraging the terrorists and their enablers.

The UN has danced around the Iraq problem for too long; it must be settled very soon.