As Ghandi said, "An Eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."
We have reached a stage no one wants to say sorry or make amends for years of injustice. The United States like many other countries spent too much time backing heavy handed governments to get oil and resources, geopolitics.
Saddam was a monster, but the States had ignored him for a bit, even during Kuwait, when they could have gone in and taken the teeth from the snake. Instead, they let him reign for another decade... And then the whole weapons of mass destruction.
The Fundementalist didn't pop out of thin air, most of them, its all they have. Why? Because of nearly three decades of failed foreign policy... and the gap that was once Communism.
The Terrorist groups had a noble cause perhaps at heart, but it turned from the time they attacked innocent civilians and resolved themselves to behad innocent Americans as well as other nationals.
I do however appreciate the sacrifice the soldiers make... And in war, lines get blurred. People do terrible things. When you see your partners get sliced up by enemy fire, you stop caring about the rules and act out of gut instinct.
War isn't nice, or pretty.... Iraqi has been an ugly one... I mean, if you go to Iraqi why not go to North Korea, I mean they are the bigger threat, right?
But that aside, its all politics. They people voted in office don't stand in the battle field, they just dictate and expect you to stroll through the minefield and not around it.
Its not cut and dry... And war is hell.
Time will tell how far its gone, but America as well as other nations are now getting what they sowed. You bully small nations, in time they turn.
Iran was a puppet government that oppressed its people, and then the Clerics stepped forward and took control. Castro was the same. He wanted American aid but they turned a blind eye, even when they were aware of what the man they had ptu in charge was doing.
Politics for you.
