05-20-2004, 09:58 PM
He wasn't stopped because Bush saw that it was a political advantage for him to be in power. He was one of the few secular leaders in the area. Bush jnr seems to have either missed that point or simply ignored it, now he has created terrorist in a country that has never had any before with the exception of rougue kurdish elements who before concentrated their attacks against the Iraqi government itself. Namely a man named Abu Masad Al Zarqawi and the small terrorist group known as Ansar al-Islam. Of course the connections between the two could be argued.
Everyone is looking for a powerful position and no one is concerned for the very people which we are apparantly trying to save. War is politics, it is not morality.
Yes, the Roman empire, and the Nazi party had that very same mentality, change cannot be forced by war. Unless your plan is to eradicate an entire society, like the Romans and the Nazis tried to do.
Everyone is looking for a powerful position and no one is concerned for the very people which we are apparantly trying to save. War is politics, it is not morality.
Quote: Countries HAVE to think outside of their own borders. And should those countries have the power to change the world for the better, I think it a good thing that they do.
Yes, the Roman empire, and the Nazi party had that very same mentality, change cannot be forced by war. Unless your plan is to eradicate an entire society, like the Romans and the Nazis tried to do.