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Originally posted by Kows
Terrorism & foriegn domestic problems always take the spotlight, don't they. 4000 people die every hour from starvation. Millions have died in Africa from bloody U.S. sponsered civil wars. Yet we think we've done a good thing when we've destabalized a region, angered many people, lost our international credibility, and brainwashed the American public.
...Not to mention our actions that led to the rise of Saddam in the first place are being repeated.... :-/
Wake up, man. This wasn't right, and it will not have good consequences for the Iraqi people or for our people.
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Only time will tell. You seem to be rather pessimistic about this whole affair, where I am more optimistic. You know you are right, and I know you are wrong...
Looking back at our human history, one can say that things are usually not as bad as they seem to be at the time. Your insistence that we "destabilized the region" may be proven wrong; after all, the US removed one of the destabilizing leaders in the area. And they are *not* going to allow a dictator to grab power again.
This war in Iraq was right after all; not doing anything would have been wrong, and dragging the whole thing out was wrong too. It *will* have good consequences for the Iraqis, who now finally have a chance to live in a democratic, safe country - how can this not be good???
The short-term consequences for the Western world may be negative, with many Arabs seeing only what they want to see; however, in the long run, I think this will prove to have positive effects. The problem is that anti-US Arabs will never accept that the US could possibly do something right; if this is the case, why would anyone care that they get angry? They're angry anyway, and nothing we do can change that.
But again, only time will tell who is correct.