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Originally Posted by aceventura3
I apologize but I am getting more confused.
Are you suggesting that we encuraged Saddam to invade Kuwait, kill his own people, reward suicide bombers, and defy the UN?
Are you suggesting that we facilitated, or helped him do these things? Do you think we are more responsible than the Iraqi people who let him rise to power and then left him unchecked? Do you think we are more responsible than his Arab neighbors? More responsible than his muslim brothers?
I am not sure how you relate Burke's quote, "Liberty without wisdom, and without virtue is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint." to your point. But I actually take it to mean that free people in the world are going to have problems if they lack clear objective thought. Right now I think many in the world and in this country lack wisdom when it comes to confronting evil people.
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I was going for..."All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing"
And i don't mean to exclude other parties from responsbility...but i will note that it's pretty sick to expect a people living under a dictator who is willing to gas his own people to rise up against that same government.
I don't think that the US bears exclusive responsbility for making this mess. I don't. It's not sane to think that. But it's similarly not sane to deny that we had a hand in arming Saddam. And that capability and support helped him accomplish his evil intents. Did we have a right to confront his evil by invading Iraq?
Maybe...and that strongly depended on our ability to do so with a positive outcome, something that seems rather in doubt at the moment.
Did we have a responsibility to consider the consequences before giving him support and arms in the conflict against Iran?
Definitively.