11-16-2004, 12:00 PM
Cidien my main complaint with your arguments is that you seem to limit them to two distinct sides, mostly dem and rep.
As for hating war and opposing the Vietnam war in particular, I do think that particular war was the wrong thing for our country to do at the time. On the flip side of that I will never spit on our troops for following orders unless those orders lead directly to genocide. It is the job of our politicians to decide when and where to use our troops and I feel that too often our Republican leaders are a little to anxious to use those troops.
Historically I believe that both the war in Vietnam and the current invasion of Iraq were poor choices made by our politicians. I'm not going to claim to know the exact motivations behind both of these wars but from what information I have available to me I don't see how the the violation of sovereign rights of those countries was clearly warranted.
If the US wants to declare itself a world wide police force and compell the rest of the world to follow US beliefs then I can see where those decisions were appropriate. I would rather see decisions like those come from a body such as the UN even though the multiple levels of bureacracy make such a body less effective. I believe that true attrocities galvanize multinational organizations into making effective choices when needed.
Although, the idea of one universal government across the globe is a compelling idea. It would be interesting to see how it gets built. Could be by force... could be financial... could even be a popular election. I don't think any of us will see this in our life time though.
As for hating war and opposing the Vietnam war in particular, I do think that particular war was the wrong thing for our country to do at the time. On the flip side of that I will never spit on our troops for following orders unless those orders lead directly to genocide. It is the job of our politicians to decide when and where to use our troops and I feel that too often our Republican leaders are a little to anxious to use those troops.
Historically I believe that both the war in Vietnam and the current invasion of Iraq were poor choices made by our politicians. I'm not going to claim to know the exact motivations behind both of these wars but from what information I have available to me I don't see how the the violation of sovereign rights of those countries was clearly warranted.
If the US wants to declare itself a world wide police force and compell the rest of the world to follow US beliefs then I can see where those decisions were appropriate. I would rather see decisions like those come from a body such as the UN even though the multiple levels of bureacracy make such a body less effective. I believe that true attrocities galvanize multinational organizations into making effective choices when needed.
Although, the idea of one universal government across the globe is a compelling idea. It would be interesting to see how it gets built. Could be by force... could be financial... could even be a popular election. I don't think any of us will see this in our life time though.
Gullible isn't in the dictionary.