Originally posted by maxterpiece
You make it sound like terrorism just comes out of nowhere from a few evil people. There are no leaders of terrorism and that is why this "war on terror" is such a joke. To sacrifice one's life just to hurt an enemy requires a desperation and alienation that we as privileged Americans could never understand. Don't talk to me about American soldiers sacrificing their lives. They are putting their lives at risk. They are not, and will never be asked to go on a suicide mission. There is a very hard line there. On an individual level, these people have become alienated by western machinations. The more leaders that are killed, the more people will see America as an arrogant, inhuman tyrant. The more people who have been alienated by America, the more attacks there will be and the more leaders will emerge. Saddam Hussein should not be seen as an evil man who has spearheaded a war against America, but as a symptom of the evil that can come from America arrogantly bullying other nations. The Iraqi people are abused by Saddam, but what do you expect? We haven't made any attempt to educate, clothe and feed his people, so how can we expect them to organize any kind of opposition to him? Removing Hussein would be good for the Iraqi people, but do you really trust our government to go in there and do what's best for the Iraqis? We are going to do what's best for us first, even if, in the long run, what's best for us is to do what's best for the Iraqi people.
