Monday-morning moralizing
: On the way home in our spring blizzard, I was listening to Leonard Lopate, host of the WNYC (that’s NPR) midday show, talking to Richard Schickel, movie critic, and they both said that as late as 1944, between 30 and 40 percent of Americans wanted us to negotiate an end to the war against Germany. It was after the war and after we uncovered the full extent of Hitler’s atrocities and evils that, Schickel said, that the necessity of the war became accepted and that the assumption of history became that virtually all of America backed the war with vigor. He noted that the percentage in favor of that war then was roughly the percentage in favor of this war now. So perhaps this war is every bit as popular as World War II. And perhaps after we uncover the full extent of Saddam’s atrocities and evil, the rest of the country (and the world… or at least Europe) will accept the necessity of this war.
6 responses to “Monday-morning moralizing”
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Some of the opposition to this war has shown invincible ignorance and a refusal to reason. No evidence will ever convince these people that they made a mistake. They will either ignore or deny any discoveries of Saddam’s atrocities, and become this generation’s equivalents of Holocaust deniers.
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Ah .. er … so if I was to provide a list of other countries that are alledged to be committing atrocities, we can (and will) go after them next?
I thought the original reason for the war was something to do with ‘weapon of mass destruction’ and alledged links to terrorist organisations.
And, roughly, over what period of time has it been alledged that atrocities have been occuring in that country?
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can i just be the first to say
holy shit
man
thats scary
and what would the world be like today if we had listened to those 30 to 40%?
i suspect as a Jew
i’d be quite dead -
Well, by your opposition, Beer Bloke, you’re certainly making it less likely that the US goes after any evil country. Now, principled isolationism is certainly an arguable position, but it’s not one that I previously consideredly particularly liberal. But it seems to be the left-wing position of the day.
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>I thought the original reason for the war was something to do with ‘weapon of mass destruction’ and alledged links to terrorist organisations.
You bet. Check the news sometime, and you will see plenty of evidence of the latter already in hand. As for the WMD, just have faith, it will be found. We’ve been fighting a war, not performing inspections, but when we start looking, I am sure they will be found.
>And, roughly, over what period of time has it been alledged that atrocities have been occuring in that country?
Does it matter? Are you saying that if a dictator has been terrorizing his country for X number of years, its all good and we should just let him go on? -
Are you saying that if a dictator has been terrorizing his country for X number of years, its all good and we should just let him go on?
ummm …. why you would think this, I don’t know. Just something about lot’s of quotes about him being a brutal dictator (from what I read and I do not argue with that) for nearly 25 years and a photo of Rumsfield less than 25 years old shaking his hand. Sorry mate, something just don’t add up.
As quoted by the Whitehouse:
“For over 20 years, the greatest threat to Iraqis has been Saddam Hussein’s regime — he has killed, tortured, raped and terrorized the Iraqi people and his neighbors for over two decades.”
Anyway, I could go on and on and on and on….. but it would be like pushing sh*% up hill.
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