From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Mar 31 2003 - 13:13:09 MST
hubert mania wrote:
> gts said:
>
>> Here in the US we have a saying (maybe you have the same saying).
>>
>> "No sense crying over spilt milk."
> What are you doing with your spilled milk in the US.?
I'd say we're trying to justify the spilt milk (the loss of American and
innocent Iraqi lives) by asserting our moral justification to 1) act to
prevent the theoretical losses of many more Iraqi lives under Saddam and to
2) act to prevent the theoretical threat of additional international
terrorism by Islamic extremists.
Quite frankly I have a some philosophical problems with both of those
justifications, but when we also add 3) increased economic prosperity for
the free-world and 4) reduced risks of local wars in the Middle East, then
the spilt milk starts to look a little less costly.
I want you to know, though, hubert, that I don't dismiss anti-war sentiments
like yours as totally false. I think anyone who takes an arrogant hard-line
stance for or against this war has probably got his deeply buried in the
sand. As I see it this is a very complex problem with many unknown
variables. Only future historians will be able to say with any kind of
certainty that the US and the Brits are doing the right thing, and I'm quite
sure that even they will find the subject worthy of debate.
-gts
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