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Re: A few things...
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Thu, 13 Mar 2003 00:39:18 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys writes:
> [BIG SNIP]
Holy cow. I bet it feels good to get THAT out!
As an American and a Christian, I agree with (most of) what you said. I'm
against this so-called "war", I don't understand why so many Christians make
this a holy issue (no, really, I don't!), and I especially don't understand
why it's suddenly un-American to indulge in something with the word "French"
in it.
Hey Christians: what the hell ever happened to "turn the other cheek"?
"Beam in thine eye?" "Have love one to another?" Any of these sound familiar?
Hey Americans: there's a helluva lot more people who disagree with you than
those who agree.
Oh and by the way -- and not that I'm necessarily promoting this conflict --
if Saddam has these chemical and biological weapons, then why haven't we
gone in and done it already? By stalling and bickering, we've given him
plenty of time to prepare his weapons to use against our troops.
But then, since we've pushed SO HARD to get the UN inspectors back into
Iraq, why are we now pushing so hard to invade just as the first report
comes in? That seems kinda rude... push and prod and pull strings to get
the unanimous vote on resolution 1441, then say we never really wanted to go
that way anyway...
So this whole Iraq thing looks pretty damn silly. More often than not I
find myself chuckling at our bungling efforts to dethrone Saddam, all the
while noticing that we're giving him all the PR he wants. And boy, does he
know how to use it.
Yes, it's SO completely CLEAR to me now that Iraq is a much greater threat
than, say, North Korea who A: has proven itself in posession of nukes, Bhas
: the means to deliver them to our shores, and C: we've never worked out
peace with in over 50 years. Yes, the same North Korea we're being
diplomatic snobs to. Yes, the same North Korea who, realizing they have a
severe food shortage and that perhaps socialism doesn't exactly work,
decided to start talks with the rest of the world.
So: It's ok to not be sure if an irrational and desparate enemy with
ballistic nukes is a threat, as long as you fully support a military
conquest of some of the richest oil fields on the planet.
And don't even get me started on our total lack of interest America has for
Africa.
Side note: I caught some of the 700 Club on TV the other day, on some
ABC-Disney channel after a random episode of Whose Line, and I got 5-10
minutes into it before I realized that it wasn't a spoof. The gist of their
top story: people protesting against the war are Anti-American (they
capitalized the word "Anti") and a Threat (they capped that too). I was
laughing my tush off, it was so goofy. And then I realized that they were
serious...
This is a trend we've seen coming for a long time now. It's especially
frightening to see how many people blindly support this administration.
Perhaps we're all just tired of CLinton-bashing that the press decided to
take a break on Bush. But it's leading into a "us or them" mentality -- if
you're not cheerleading America, you're against America.
It's like the 50s all over again, with the nation polarizing against an
enemy who can't quite be defined. Just replace "Communism" with
"Terrorism"; all the other lingo works again. I'm afraid that we'll be
seeing something of a repeat of McCarthyism before it starts to get better.
I feel a little better now, one rambling rant after another... :-,
Cheers,
- jsproat
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