Sorry about the silence,
Bank Holiday on Monday so I can't go online until today. But here are some thoughts and oh yes from now on I will put a new post for every idea so people won't get lost.
My dad made a prediction once that Bush was going to be a one-term president when he started the war against terror and invaded Afghanistan. Now it is not that he is against the conservative Christian agenda of Bush. Hey being in a teacher in Sunday School and the father of four kids, he is as against abortion as one can get but the fact Americans had never shown the stomach to carry the right things through. They are forever in this popularity contest never mind if it means not doing the right thing.
I wasn't too hot for the Iraq myself, not so much it will get Iraqis killed( by the way who has sympathies for guys who torture footballers for reasons not their won making? Plenty of people actually but that is another story) but that the Americans won't be able to stomach the casualties if the Iraqis put up a stiff resistance( I was wrong, the melted away even when they had home-ground advantage). My change of heart came when I met this Sudanese pastor from Khartoum. A question was asked whether he thought what Bush did was a call from God. I liked the way he answered. He said honestly he don't know but the day Saddam fell, all of the sudden the government decided to start negotiating with the rebels in the South because their patron is no more.
Then I realised the only pro-peace people who spend hours marching are those who at the end of the day can go for a pint at the local pub and then drive home in their nice cars to their comfortable homes and couldn't give a damn about the 20 million refugees around the world but to people like the Dinkas and Nuers they don't have the luxury of choice.
Yeah I agreed Bush can do more in Darfur but at least something is done though it is lacking but then again it is much better than what Clinton had done: pulling out of Somalia and condenming it to a civil that lasted up until this month9 that is more than ten years) and let us not go into Rwanda. To him much is given much will required. With all its wealth and might wha thas the US done with it. A little daeth here and there is justified by the means. LIke 50 million died in WW2 but you know what. Hitler and Tojo must be removed. They should have did the same with Stalin but then again this hindsight. The world is better today for what happened more than 60 years ago.
SO my stance pro-war if it is just. Don't remove just Saddam. There is Musharraf, Gadaffi, Mubarak, the Sauds, the ayatollahs..heck all these people came to power by oppression..they all should go...I don't why we are stilln tolerating them...like we tolerated Sddam 20 years ago the will become cancer. Convenience should not be at the expense justice.