Welcoming the nascent American Empire
BarlowFriendz 8.8: Pox Americana
The US is doing things wrong, completely wrong, and it is strange to see many in power over there completely oblivious to this. They cannot just attack Iraq because they feel like it. And all the justifications they have made so far are rather weak in moral terms for the decisions which they have made, and which they wish to make in the future. Sanity, please!
October 20th, 2002 at 11:59 pm
I’d like to make a slightly skewed analogy.
A massive jailbreak is often seen as a rather bad thing. The sort of thing that would happen somewhere in the 4th inning of “Oncoming Anarchy”.
Now, Iraq is a country where this can happen, and ppl celebrate. Now, I’d say this lack of massive public panic is related to the fact the every criminal in country is afraid of sadam.
now, if you’ll compare sadam’s presence in his country, and his lack of toleration for crime, with the us’s new found(?) lack of toleration with “rogue states”.
i seem to recall the ppl complained about the weakness of the moral justification of the Gulf War. “it’s only about oil” seemed to be a common theme. “come on lads, you’ll need a better reason to liberate Kuwait” seemed to be a common undertone.
how can ppl rest easy at night knowing that there is an entire country which is quite happy attack it’s neighbour. If Iraq can do it, when would Britain realise that the easiest way to sort Northern Ireland is to take the lot? There’s plenty legal basis for the Crown’s ownership of this little island. Who’d complain?
France? *cough* Alsace *cough*
Germany? *cough* Nazis *cough*
there is only so much any country can do to maintain peace. thumping sadam every so often seems to help.
October 21st, 2002 at 2:03 am
Everybody is aware of Saddam’s past history, but why pick on him then? What about Israel, who have shown little respect for the Palestinian state?
Who decides where the little finger points? Obviously there is a small amount of bias going on. Saddam doesn’t appear to have done much worse things to neighbouring countries than Israel have. Admittedly, worse internal events have occurred - and this is a greater justification for events, if the reasoning was to protect the Iraqi people - it is not.
And persisting with this line may result in the destabilisation of the region (if it has not already done so). What will cause the greater suffering in the end?