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Religions > Atheism |
| User: |
"David Canzi -- non-mailable" |
| Date: |
09 Apr 2006 04:35:22 PM |
| Object: |
War is hell, not heck. |
I think the US gets stuck in foreign wars like a mammoth in a tar
pit for two reasons: (1) They go to war for the wrong reasons.
(2) They don't do what must be done once they're there.
What got me thinking about this was a report in The Atlantic
Monthly. They gave a sample of foreign policy experts a list of
countries and asked them which ones pose the greatest threat,
directly or indirectly, to US interests. Iran topped the list
by a generous margin, followed by North Korea, Pakistan, China,
Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Russia.
Afghanistan and Iraq are not especially powerful countries, and yet
the continuing costs of fighting there are harming the US. How can
this be happening to the richest and most powerful nation on earth?
If wars in Afghanistan and Iraq can cause the US this much trouble,
how would it survive if it also had to fight Iran and North Korea?
What is the right reason for a country to go to war? To eliminate
a threat to itself. (NOT to help the people of the country
they're invading.) What must a country do when it fights a war?
Kill people and wreck stuff, and keep on killing and destroying
until the threat is eliminated.
If the invading country tries to protect civilian populations,
cultural monuments or heritage architecture, it will pull its
punches and will never be able to finish the job. Even the richest
country on earth can't afford the kind of perpetual not-quite-won
conflicts that result from trying to do that.
War is hell, not heck. A war zone is no place for euphemism and
pussyfooting. When a country goes to war, it must be willing
to firebomb cities, destroy museums and monuments and shrines,
poison airdropped food, and send the enemy's country back to the
stone age, if that's what it takes to eliminate a threat.
If a threat is not serious enough to justify hundreds of thousands
of civilian deaths and the destruction of priceless cultural and
historic sites, then it's not serious enough to justify going
to war.
--
David Canzi "Imminent death of dominant paradigm predicted -- film at 11."
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