Originally posted by Raskolnikov
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Raskolnikov
Finally, will never be maintained if the good people of the world always turn and run from a fight. There are too many people who will exploit that to their own benefit. Saddam Hussein is very much one of those people and to pretend otherwise is to be completely ignorant of history.

Well first - WHO supplied this region with weapons in the first place? wasnt it the US? In the Kuwait war, why did the US leave Saddam on the head if Iraq? because he, as such, is the one who stands against an independend Kurdistan - and that is good for the relations between the US and Turkey.

The truth is, that this all is not about peace in this region. The US is not interrested in peace there. this is only an excuse to make the US look like the big saviours. all the actions of the US in this region are about economic interrests. no wonder that those people hate kapitalism. To deny this fact, THAT whould be ignorant!

With their engagement in the conflict between the Soviet Union and Afghanistan, the US (in particular the CIA) did not do anything for peace INTENTIONALLY. instead of staying out of it all they sent weapons to Afganistan - weapons that are now aimed towards the US! After the Soviets left afganistan, the US dropped them and stopped to care about the consequences of their activities in that region. great policy. back then the afganistan people had to pay with their lives for the political calculus of the US. The US supplied the fundamentalists with weapons that they used against their own people and now agaist the US (Taliban). Thats sheer madness.

The US has always been great in blaming others for their own fault. You can realy be proud of your Number One.

of course it is easy to claim that they are now doing it all for the sake of humanity and peace.

And as for 'you cannot maintain peace if you run away from a fight because someone WILL abuse your peacefullness'.... thats the next madness. protecting oneself against an invisible enemy "someone might attack me - now lets make heaps of weapons, bigger and more dangerous" - great point. Now the next country sees this and thinks "oh sh*t - now they are so powerfull they might attack me - i have to build weapons like this too".. sounds familliar somehow? cold war? no? this is PARANOIA!

if everyone would live their OWN lives and lived on the principle "no war - war will not make peace" THEN problems like this would not arise.

Its a funny that the same thing that makes mankind evolve, will be their doom.. curiosity and greed.
But maybe the humans are not smart enough to change their point of view. so be it.

[Edited by Azrael on 01-24-2003 at 02:07 AM]