Thursday, August 17, 2006

World Trade Center


I didn't want to see it.
At all.

But, I went and saw Oliver Stone's World Trade Center and was - amazed. It was phenomenal; see it!

It got me thinking, though. And then my roomie came home tonight with an Op-Ed article that was questioning (imagine!) the government. Or, more directly, Herr - er, VP Cheney. So - this is going to be a slight ramble into a couple rather deep things.
Ready?

I read an article on war that says that the reason that America doesn't just go in countries and blow them off the face of the map is because we are too (paraphrasing!) "" sorry, or regretful of all the killings that we are responsible for "" - and this was compared to how White people will continue to feel bad that Black people used to be slaves. (what?!)

Mull that one over in your head and get back to me.
 (Because, really, doesn't that just explain Vietnam and Korea? What was the DEAL there??)

Anyway - this Op-Ed article ( "Big Talk, Little Will" ~ Thomas L. Friedman) continued with this question (I Loved It), "... Fight the Iraq war with the Rumsfeld Doctrine, just enough troops to lose, and not the Powell Doctrine of overwhelming force to create the necessary foundation of any democracy building project, which is security?"

DUH!!!!

 This reminded me of Mayor Rudy's words before the UN in October of 2001:
"Freedom from Fear is a basic human right. We need to need to reassert our right to live free from fear with greater confidence and determination than ever before.... With one clear voice, unanimously, we need to say that we will not give in to terrorism. Surrounded by our friends of every faith, we know that this is not a clash of civilizations; it is a conflict between murderers and humanity.

This is not a question of retaliation or revenge. It is a matter of justice leading to peace. The only acceptable result is the complete and total eradication of terrorism."

Abraham Lincoln taught us that, "Those that deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."

have we totally eradicated terrorism?

um. Apparently not, no.

(let me reiterate: NO!)

All people seem to want to do is TALK. I am thinking right now of the "cease fire" between Israel and Lebanon. Let me AGAIN refer back Giuliani, "Remember PM Neville Chamerberlain, who - armed only with good intentions negotiated and emerged hopeful that the he had achieved peace in his time. Hitler's wave of terror was only encouraged by these attempts at appeasement. At the cost of millions of lives, we learnd that words - thought important - are not enough to guarantee peace. It is action alone that counts."

We (and by "we" I mean America) don't go into other countries to take over and stay. We don't colonize, we don't subject other peoples to our government (randomly). HOWEVER, we will stand up to defend ourselves AND if that means that we are going to come into your country to clean house a little, we will. AND if that means that we are going to be re-organizing your government to HELP YOU ~ again, we WILL.
IF law is the strongest link between man and freedom; and you want the freedom, THEN you need the CORRECT principles behind the laws. Tony Blair has stated that, "all nations that are free value that freedom, will defend it absolutely but have no wish to trample on the freedom of others."
America, believe it or not is "... Fighting for the inalienable right of humankind--black or white; Christian or not; left, right or merely indifferent--to be free--free to raise a family in love and hope, free to earn a living and be rewarded by your own efforts, free not to bend your knee to any man in fear, free to be you, so long as being you does not impair the freedom of others."

Having said that, what the FUDGE are we doing in Iraq? What is THAT?? I get that Saddam was a, what? what can I say here? Psychotic despot?! He was terrible, and YES he was supportive of things Anti-American; but I don't understand how we ended up in Iraq without necessary plans, forces or... Anything, really. Who does that?

YES! We understood 5 years ago that this was going to be hard, long and drawn out. That it would take sacrifice and effort on our part - but really? I am not seeing any ~ ANY! ~ effects proving that the cause (there) was "right."

Now - some might argue that because the UN passed the Terrorist resolution and that we needed to:
"hold accountable any country that supports or condones terrorism,"
"ostracize any nation that supports terrorism," and
"isolate any nation that remains neutral in the fight against terrorism"

but that was the UN --- we were busy (I believe, anyway) in AFGHANISTAN -- oh, and we were watching China, North Korea, the Kurds etc. etc.

And now that I think about it -- Syria and Lebanon?! (hello!) And then Lebanon (under Syrian pressure, okay) harasses Israel. (which I believe I've talked about) -

Well, I still believe, " The best long term deterrent to terrorism ... Is the spread of our principles of freedom, democracy, the rule of law, and respect for human life." Remember, "because destiny put us in this place in history, in this moment in time - the task is ours to do."

posted by meg @ 10:52 PM

1 Comments:

At 11:57 PM, Blogger meg said...

well - better him that some others i can think of.

 

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