Post #26092 by Luki on Mon, Mar 10, 2003 11:35 PM

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I hear ya loud and clear ya.

Hey, I'm all for peace, too, but I certainly believe that sometimes war is the only option.

For instance, if 100,000 people are coming to your country with guns and they want to kill your family...war is a pretty good option.

If a maniac who paid large sums of cash to a pissed off ex military type to get a small van-load of weapons grade nuclear materials and all he's waiting for to push the button is the 'scientists' to finish building the damn thing...war is a pretty good option.

With rational people peace is always the best way to go.

With people who are insane or filled with so much hatred that they can't even see the truth that even their own armies have NO desire to be a part of their mad plans...well, war may happen, and you either join in and take the risks, or you get killed.

I don't like the idea of anybody losing their life over a difference in religious and political ideals...for obvious reasons, the very thought of warring over God is utterly ridiculous...but let's face it: War today is not about occupation and land. People who hate want their enemies dead, not enslaved or pushed aside.

I hope that we will never see a nuclear war. And I hope that the volatility in the Middle East and parts of Asia will, somehow, disappear.

But I would much rather see this country stop a madman before he has the ability to do something terrible...even if it means the entire rest of the world hates the U.S. and thinks we're assholes...than see those terrible things happen and regret it later.

Saving face is a pretty cowardly reason to avoid standing up to a group of nutjobs.

Of course, many people will say "Saddam has no intentions of doing anything bad...we just want that oil" or "Do you know how many horrible things our government has done?" and so on.

You'd have to be naive to think that the benefit of possibly cheaper (and unthreatened) oil supplies isn't very appealing. And yes, I'm sure our government has done many horrible things that I wouldn't really like to think about. But neither of those reasons justify looking the other way in the face of danger.

There are bad people in the world and sometimes you have to be bad to get rid of bad. That's the way it is.

Ideally, yes, I would love to believe that peace can overcome those who hate and wish to destroy others because of their beliefs or color or financial status or what have you. Tragically, history has proven otherwise.

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