war in iraq Options

[brian_deegan]

do you support it or no?

[*Kathleen*]

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.

First off, are the American troops out there in Iraq not fighting for their country? Because previous wars were fought, we have rights and freedoms now that we didn't have before. What do you mean?! There are plenty of people in this country that stand up for it, respecting it every single day. There are people fighting to protect it right now! That's what we're talking about, right?

How is this war wasting lives? Okay, let's say this war were to never happen - Saddam would still be in power, killing off dozens of innocent people every single hour. That's not wasting lives, is it? Oh no, not at all. That's exactly what I'm getting from you. Furthermore, Saddam would've found some way or other to harm our country even more because he knew we were still mourning from 9-11, and were at one of our weakest periods.

Catching Bin Laden and punishing him will not change anything, eh? That's a nice thought. How about the fact that if we catch him, he'll no longer have the ability to plot attacks against the United States! I suppose you didn't think about that. Another thing, by punishing him, it'll show his followers not to mess with us. Yeah, you're right - all hate and evil can't be exterminated. We can try the best we can though, right? What do you want us to do? Give up because hate exists?