tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6911506.post110655388391846577..comments2023-11-05T04:29:40.867-08:00Comments on Choosing Hope: Facing ContradictionWalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07043584417557166784noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6911506.post-1106751980962276542005-01-26T07:06:00.000-08:002005-01-26T07:06:00.000-08:00"the overthrow of Saddam is such an extraordinaril..."the overthrow of Saddam is such an extraordinarily good thing"<br /><br />Why? Not why is Saddam not ruling Iraq a good thing, but why is the military invasion and overthrow of Saddam by a foreign power "an extraordinarily good thing"?<br /><br />You say Saddam was a tyrannical monster, but based on what? The testimony of Ahmed Chalabi and other's with a financial or political stake in the game? And do we then apply this same yardstick to every nation on the planet and pick off the ones we don't think measure up?<br /><br />Whatever tyranny Saddam exercised (and I grant you he was a tyrant, but his sons even more so) he exercised against his own people in his own sovereign country. As cold as it sounds, our military is not a global liberation force to be used at the discretion and judgment of a single man. We have other means at our disposal to shape the course of world peace other than crusading into the Muslim world.<br /><br />Americans, for generations to come, will bear the stain and burden of this invasion of Iraq, as we slide deeper into debt both financially and morally. On September 11, 2001 the course of America's future as changed, though horribly, with the possibility of becoming an even greater, stronger and more respected leader of the free word. On March 20, 2003 the beacon of that possibility was snuffed out.-epmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10290108507107672811noreply@blogger.com