war in iraq Options

[brian_deegan]

do you support it or no?

[tkproduce]

You then come in contact with the unreasonable, the Kamikazes so to say. The ones that don't give a crap about human life, even their own. These people may just pull a trump card and decide to push their "red button" one day...and we just simply can't allow that.

First of all, that's a misunderstanding about Kamikaze. Japanese men sacrificed their own lives for their country and for their emperor. Now, from a Christian or "modern" point of view, that seems "wrong" because the belief in western countries is to respect your own life. However, what a lot of western people don't seem to understand is the cultural gap between themselves and other countries. In a lot of Asian countries, people like to work as a group, rather than show individuality, and have a leader to which they honor. Whether people regard this as "primative" or "unfair" is another problem.

The Vietnam War, for example - the people there were poor and were about to be ruled by a communist government, but were they unhappy? I'm sure they were happier before their whole country was being bombed by napalm and Agent Orange by the Allies who believed that the Vietnamese would be "happier" living in a western culture. And what's the result? A totally useless war wasting a lot of lives and money - sort of like what this war in Iraq is ending up to be.

Another thing, catching Bin Laden and punishing him will NOT change anything. Terrorism doesn't work like that. Destroying one organisation will just give rise to another, as long as there's hate - and believe me, there's alot of it out there. I say, catching Bin Laden would just make things worse, because he's got a legendary status in the middle east.