big suprise
i mean really, how stupid do they think this cat is? if he shows up to the peace meeting thing, he dies. and if that is not true, he would be stupid if he didn't at least think it was true.
first off, it's really disrespectful for the united states to be at war during the olympic games. don't we remember the 1980 olympics? isn't this the exact reason we didn't show up?
but it's a lot deeper than that.
this is just further proof that the united states has no interest in democracy in iraq anyway. democracy would mean letting the people have the government they would choose. if the motives of our government were even remotely pure, we would have pulled out as soon as sadam hussien was caught. after all, he was the problem.
but alas, he has only made more problems, one being a certain cleric ... who represents more of the nation than any one american ever could. and how many people will die? how many religiously important sites will be destroyed before he is finally caught? and then what is left? the image of the martyr?
sooner or later, americans are going to have to understand that there is more to freedom than can be locked into democracy. if no one wants to be part of a democracy, than how can a democracy even be democratic?
this is something that safa pointed out to me years and years ago. if people want to have a religion rule their life (as some people's religions would demand), than to enforce anything to the contrary is a violation of rights.
i guess that's my way of saying that if the people of iraq were allowed to choose thier leader and the direction of the blossoming nation, they may choose this man, and they may choose a theocratic regime. and that's just the way it would have to work.
but of course, that is just not acceptable to the united states. after all, no matter if the war is about religion or other geopolitical motives, it is not about the rights of the iraqi people nor about the spreading of democracy. and there should be no mistake made about it.
when it comes down to it, we did not invest the money into this little venture that we did if we are not going to end up with a firm grasp on the new land.
first off, it's really disrespectful for the united states to be at war during the olympic games. don't we remember the 1980 olympics? isn't this the exact reason we didn't show up?
but it's a lot deeper than that.
this is just further proof that the united states has no interest in democracy in iraq anyway. democracy would mean letting the people have the government they would choose. if the motives of our government were even remotely pure, we would have pulled out as soon as sadam hussien was caught. after all, he was the problem.
but alas, he has only made more problems, one being a certain cleric ... who represents more of the nation than any one american ever could. and how many people will die? how many religiously important sites will be destroyed before he is finally caught? and then what is left? the image of the martyr?
sooner or later, americans are going to have to understand that there is more to freedom than can be locked into democracy. if no one wants to be part of a democracy, than how can a democracy even be democratic?
this is something that safa pointed out to me years and years ago. if people want to have a religion rule their life (as some people's religions would demand), than to enforce anything to the contrary is a violation of rights.
i guess that's my way of saying that if the people of iraq were allowed to choose thier leader and the direction of the blossoming nation, they may choose this man, and they may choose a theocratic regime. and that's just the way it would have to work.
but of course, that is just not acceptable to the united states. after all, no matter if the war is about religion or other geopolitical motives, it is not about the rights of the iraqi people nor about the spreading of democracy. and there should be no mistake made about it.
when it comes down to it, we did not invest the money into this little venture that we did if we are not going to end up with a firm grasp on the new land.
posted by jeames morgan at
12:55:00 AM
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