- Jul 22, 2004
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Hello my friends!
I've read that 'Protest Against the war' thing and I wish to posit my own views on the subject, and this place offers a better venue to discuss, I think. So anyway, here's my view:
I have literally cried myself to sleep after seeing all the footage that came from Iraq/Afghanistan/pretty much anywhere in the middle east. I saw the nameless bodies exhumed from mass graves. I saw the decapitation videos that the terrorists are now fond of releasing. I saw the torture videos of people being whipped, beaten, having their hands/tongues cut off, heving their bones broken, being thrown off of buildings, etc. I saw mutilated bodies dangling from bridges. I saw video of the aftermath when Saddam Hussein gassed the Kurds. It is very clear that there was a war being waged by the terrorists and dictators against innocent civilians. Also sickening is the fact that these monsters have continually invoked the name of our good and merciful God to justify themselves, to justify blowing themselves up on buses filled with women and children.
I think that by our actions in Afghanistan and Iraq, by toppling the brutal regimes that ran those countries, we have saved countless lives, and helped to assuage untold suffering. It seems wrong to stand around and watch our brothers and sisters suffer and die at the hands of villains such as Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.
I don't, however, think that we went into Iraq or Afghanistan for its humanitarian virtue. To quote Michael Moore: "Obviously those who choose our wars don't care much about liberating people from oppressive regimes - if they did, we'd be kicking the s*** out of half the world." There is still a great deal of suffering in the world: children being forced to work in diamond mines to fund terrorist operations - and being deprived of limbs or life if they don't; the tens of thousands of people dying in Sudan; the abject poverty and suppression of the people of North Korea. No amount of reasoning will appeal to the ruthless dictators who oppress these nations - just as no amount of reasoning brought down Hitler or Stalin or Pol Pot. Such people do not respect reason; they respect force. I know that ALL war is evil, but often there are greater evils - such as doing nothing about the suffering of our brothers and sisters all over the world.
I hope you all enjoyed that; it was the most coherent thing I could write in half an hour.
God Bless,
Sepsis
I've read that 'Protest Against the war' thing and I wish to posit my own views on the subject, and this place offers a better venue to discuss, I think. So anyway, here's my view:
I have literally cried myself to sleep after seeing all the footage that came from Iraq/Afghanistan/pretty much anywhere in the middle east. I saw the nameless bodies exhumed from mass graves. I saw the decapitation videos that the terrorists are now fond of releasing. I saw the torture videos of people being whipped, beaten, having their hands/tongues cut off, heving their bones broken, being thrown off of buildings, etc. I saw mutilated bodies dangling from bridges. I saw video of the aftermath when Saddam Hussein gassed the Kurds. It is very clear that there was a war being waged by the terrorists and dictators against innocent civilians. Also sickening is the fact that these monsters have continually invoked the name of our good and merciful God to justify themselves, to justify blowing themselves up on buses filled with women and children.
I think that by our actions in Afghanistan and Iraq, by toppling the brutal regimes that ran those countries, we have saved countless lives, and helped to assuage untold suffering. It seems wrong to stand around and watch our brothers and sisters suffer and die at the hands of villains such as Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.
I don't, however, think that we went into Iraq or Afghanistan for its humanitarian virtue. To quote Michael Moore: "Obviously those who choose our wars don't care much about liberating people from oppressive regimes - if they did, we'd be kicking the s*** out of half the world." There is still a great deal of suffering in the world: children being forced to work in diamond mines to fund terrorist operations - and being deprived of limbs or life if they don't; the tens of thousands of people dying in Sudan; the abject poverty and suppression of the people of North Korea. No amount of reasoning will appeal to the ruthless dictators who oppress these nations - just as no amount of reasoning brought down Hitler or Stalin or Pol Pot. Such people do not respect reason; they respect force. I know that ALL war is evil, but often there are greater evils - such as doing nothing about the suffering of our brothers and sisters all over the world.
I hope you all enjoyed that; it was the most coherent thing I could write in half an hour.
God Bless,
Sepsis
