war in iraq Options

[brian_deegan]

do you support it or no?

[dasturbd]

wow. chill. I'm just trying to suggest another point of view to this topic, not have a major, full-blown, argument.

I don't have anything against the individual Allied soldiers fighting out there because I believe that they believe that they're fighting for a just cause - for their country and for their family.  Similarly, all the individual Iraqi soldiers are doing exactly the same - fighting for their country and loved ones.  The evil is behind the masterminds of the war, not the individual fighters involved in it.

You say about "at least we're trying", but I'm just asking what would justify "at least we're trying" if it goes all wrong like it did in Vietnam?

About Bin Laden, these people are not afraid of dying or being punished for the sake of harming the Americans who they DETEST with all their heart.  The argument of trying to get rid of evil by having a war sort of sounds contradictory and it doesn't make sense to me.  Why not spend the billions of dollars of money spent on the war on more important stuff like improving the education system, preventing road accidents (which kill more than Bin Laden will ever do) or feed the poor?

as far as Vietnam goes, I don't put it and the current situation in the same book. We are in Iraq as a direct result of things that happened on our own soil...huge difference there.

Oh btw...my mention of Kamikazes above was not a pun intended towards the japanes, only towards a way of thinking.

Furthermore, we do need to spend some well deserved money into the education system, but not at the expense of the military. What good is education if you're dead.