Chris
>>If we were going to bomb every country/organization that does nothing in the face of genocide, ethnic cleansing, torture, etc., we would quickly run out of bombs.
And of course you'd be bombing yourselves too. Today's events force the question: why did we impose 12 years of starvation, misery and neglect on the Iraqi people unless we believed that SH would do as we say while we did nothing about it.
And that's the fact. We, did, nothing. All the justifications for war and the rest of it boil down to the fact that we were too busy looking after our first-world selves to remember that an entire nation was embargoed on our orders until such time as our demands were met, a timing which you now say was never going to happen by itself. So why did we do this to the Iraqi people. Why didn't we act on the cancer while it was still small. Why are we surprised that the cancer takes little notice if all we do is scold and wait till it is a huge mess and heroic action is required.
We all have a lot of "looking in the mirror" ahead of us.
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
