So I'm watching the news last Friday, and they're talking about how the UN inspectors in Iraq can't find any hard evidence that Saddam is really planning to start some shit with "weapons of mass-destruction." Cut-to: Washington. How will the Bush administration justify an attack?
Well, I've been kind of wondering the same thing. Let's face it, it's a no-contest war we'd fight. However, things are different this time. First of all, it's not just a matter of bombing the crap out of the them. Our people will die in this fight. Second, what gives us the right to impose a regime change? Seems to me it's only "moral" if there's oil involved, because we pretty much sat back and watched a good portion of Eastern Europe kill each other in the last decade or so.
The fact is, the world, the UN, and the people of the US have not been given any solid proof that Saddam is indeed a threat. All we hear is rhetoric from Washington. Sure he's a bad man, sure he'd nuke us all if he could, but it hardly seems like the American way to take somebody out based on their potential. We all have the potential to kill people and blow shit up, but it doesn't mean that we can or we will. Flag waving by itself is not a reason for war.
Then on the other side of the world, we're in a panic because we think that North Korea wants to start building nukes. Am I the only one that noticed we dropped out of the ICBM treaty a couple of years ago and now want to build this "missle defense" system? I would think that's a pretty obvious cause-and-effect thing there, but I guess nobody else gets it. If we're going to lead by example, then right now we're pretty much saying that we don't need to follow the same rules as our neighbors. Who can blame them for acting as we do?
It's a different world since 9/11, sure, but we're going off of the deep end here. We're pissing off other countries, making our own rules and neglecting our domestic problems. The whole thing reeks of political positioning. What happened to bin Laden? I thought he was the bad guy we were worried about. His organization pulled off the single greatest act of terrorism in history.
I fear we're headed back to the cold war days. We're certainly not moving forward.
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