Okay, LISTEN UP!! :)
Ok, here’s the skinny.
Our world is at a crossroads. Throughout history many governments have called themselves Republic and Democratic. All of these, ALL OF THEM, are now called Empires.
There is no escaping this fact. In the United States we refer to Glorious Age of the United Kingdom as the British Empire. The Romans? A Republic more often than a despotic Emperor, yet it will forever be known as the Roman Empire.
A thousand years from now, regardless of what happens, the United States will one day be known as the American Empire. Many of you will read and doubt this, but we are not the authors of history.
As for this particular conflict? Many claim “Oil for Blood” yet don’t realize this is the most ignorant arguement at all. The United States REFUSES to drill in most of Alaska. The Oil output of Alaska dwarfs the output of Iraq, yet at this point in time, long before Iraq, our government agree’d it was cheaper to buy oil than to drill it and deal with environmental issues. Does this sound like a country desperate for oil? I could write pages and pages on this subject, but believe me, oil is the last thing on our minds.
What IS on Bush’s mind???
I don’t like this President. He is weak, and his policy is vague. But his decision to attack Iraq was not only justifiable, but necessity.
Look at the coalition. A group of 30+ nobody countries sprinkled with our brother allies like the UK, and Australia. Other than that its a whos whos of nobodies. Or is it?
These countries in our coalition stand at a crossroads between becoming an Iraq, a North Korea, or becoming democratic, and joining the modern world of freedom. We are setting an example that NO country will be allowed to hold the world hostage with nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction.
Does Iraq have these weapons? No probably not, but North Korea does. And now they hold Japan and South Korea hostage. One day North Korea will nuke someone. It’s not a question of if, just when. And when this happens the world will finally wake up to its responsibility. But until that day it falls upon those who were pulled out of their comfortable isolation to save the world once again 58 years later due to the failure of the system we created (UN).
I feel terrible for the majority of Iraqi people. The people of the inner-city are modern, well thinking, and they care about the world. However the rest are animals, who take pleasure in the torture of the weak as noted by the lovely pictures of our young woman and men captured and many murdered in custody. These were not combat troops, these were supply engineers, simply bringing meals and ammunition to the front lines. Many were shot point blank in the forehead. Others had their genitalia displayed, showing the lack of manhood America has.
Many people in this world are animals, still stuck in an age where you beat your fellow man over the head for food and wealth, and rape the weak women when emotion dictates. These people will be educated or systematically wiped out, this is the rule of modern imperialism. And I for one want a unified world in which people like this are only talked about in the history books. It’s not an easy path at all, but one we must take or face extinction in the long run as our world slowly dies.
As for France Ill say this. Im ashamed to be descened from the same Germanic tribes that spawned a race of cowards. Im even more ashamed to use this as a blanket for the French people, but the days of The Resistance are long gone. The French have degenerated into a bickering, sly race willing to sell technology to the highest bidder. They have committed countless atrocities, beginning with the Ardennes(sp) in which they ignored the UNs demand to stop, the first such country to do so in the history of the UN.
Today they sell electronics to Iraq for missile and demolitions. The same weapons that kill our pilots (US/UK/Australia). What other secrets and technology have the French sold the Iraqi regime that tortures its people, and hangs menstrating woman by their feet as punishment? We will soon find out. This is a country that has proliferated more nuclear weapons in the last fifteen years than the world combined. They now have the third highest amount, and will soon be number one as the Russians and Americans continue to disarm.
Ahh the Russians. Lets just say they are done yet as an Empire themselves. Vladimir Putin is a genius, and I fear him greatly. But he is also a rational man and loving father and husband. I cannot say the same of the leader of North Korea, but I digress. Putin has the unenviable task of rebuilding Mother Russia. This requires a lot of dirty work, and surprise surprise, the other country most objecting to this war is also selling them arms, inclulding anti-tank missiles. We will have to wait for Baghdad to find how many lives the Russians will take from us in this war.
The end result is that war sucks. But as a race (Humanity) we have only one major immediate goal left, and one permanent goal. Our immediate goal is peace, our permanent one is humanity itself. One day we will have to leave this planet, there is no denying this, Earth is finite. But its timeline is to be determained by those with will and power not those tiny dictators willing to build just one nuclear weapon so they can go down in history as the one to end humanity for all time. For those that don’t believe anyone could be so insane, I invite you to read upon Mr. Kim in North Korea, as well as Mr. Hussein and his children. Spend just a few minutes researching their atrocities and tell me Isolation is good enough.
Lastly, Im not inhuman. Id rather just live in a world where everyone says “What the hell is war?” and my heart breaks when I read about the two British pilots slain by friendly fire. But this is a hard necessity, one that we all have to bear and I for one feel the majority of the world is up for it. And if not, necessity will always take over, and on the day Kim nukes South Korea or Japan, the world will once again turn to the Modern World, countries like Britain and America to lead them in confronting these threats. In the interim they will see us as Imperialistic.
Okay this is getting too long, so one last thing I want to say.
Protesters. These people make me a little sick. They want to help by being socially disruptive. If you really want to help, stop stepping over the homeless to scream “NO BLOOD FOR OIL” instead put down that sign and give your fellow man a coin or better yet buy him or her a nice meal, and get to know them. They dont understand that’s what were doing in Iraq. And they are the type of people not willing to do it themself, and the first to cry for help when invaders come killing their children and raping their woman. To me its the ultimate in irony, to have the luxury to preach about this war, yet not realize where that right came from.
Forgive me if Im a bit longwinded and incoherent at times, its just in times like this I feel many miss the ultimate long range point, and I doubt I articulated it well here. =) Just stay safe everyone including those Iraqis that yearn for peace and prosperity, you will get it soon but there’s much work to be done.