Whispering wrote:
But I guess it is all water under the bridge since you agree with me that the invasion of Iraq was the morally correct thing to do.
Morally, yes.
But it is not Morality No 1. Unfortunately, the statements of the Administration, the media blitz and the allied hoopla made Iraq the cause celebre in the messianic zeal that went into making Iraq the prima donna of this 'liberation of the oppressed' agenda.
However, the unholy haste to get rid of the UN Inspectors, debunking the UN, 'with us or against us' jibe and the hellfired hurry to open a second front without finishing the first or 'smoking Osama bin Laden, dead or alive' does suggest that Afghanistan was merely a smokescreen.
The fact that Osama is frolicking in the hills on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan is incongruent to the messianic and sincere tone of the 'we will smoke him out' speech. The fact that the US is no longer concerned about this person does lead most to believe that it was just rhetoric to build up a case for whatever was planned.
Then, the WMD was not found. For months the US searched and they found nothing. And yet, the UN inspectors were debunked as bumbling fools and were not even given the time to check - not even the time the US inspectors got and failed.
All this does make one wonder.
Whilst Americans have a stake in Iraq and hence do not wish to see these issues and maybe rightly so for patriotic reasons, others who have no stake can sit back and without emotion analyse the issue. Had it been my nation, maybe I too would be blind to my nation's folly. That is but being human.
And honestly, I don't think I have to agree with or disagree with anyone. I don't take anyone's or my post as a personal edict that has to be kowtowed to. Not at all. The Board is merely a vehicle for interaction and education.
I do value your posts. It gives me an insight of the American line of thought.
Is there--is there balm in Gilead?--tell me--tell me I implore!"
Quoth the raven, "Nevermore."