Thoughts on the coming war.
Mar 14, 2003
We'd have cheaper oil if we weren't going to war right now. I'm pretty sure at least one of Bush's advisors have told him that.
Power is what the UN wants, without doing what it needs. You can't blame the US for wanting power, when it is only achieving goals the UN has set. And just remember that the UN inspectors got kicked out of Iraq when US military forces weren't there to threaten to kick Saddam's butt.
Inspections don't work. The threat of military aggression works. And now that the US and British (and Australian) military are threatening, the inspectors are taking the credit. Right. It's all Mr. Blix and his brave group of wise and noble inspectors. That's why the peaceful process made so much progress over the past 12 years when there was no military action.
I'm sorry, I'm not going to support the idea of keeping 200,000 young U.S. men and women out in the gulf babysitting Iraq and sitting on their hands while Blix runs an apologist campaign for Iraqi noncompliance for the next 3 years.
The US wants no more power than the UN. We just back our words with action, and as a result we get what we want. I'm not going to apologize for that.
The war is not about oil. But you're right, it IS about power. It's about the power to change the world, with a vision of democracy in the middle east, peaceful relations with Arab nations, and rebuilding the world in a way that makes it safer, freer, and more prosperous.
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