1) I am not saying it is right by any means, but my point is Iran isn't enemy number one, there are far more worrying things in the world than stoning to death due to adultery, why is the public opinion more focused on the genocide in other parts of the world which to me is more harrowing.
2) Fair enough, my point was why hate on Iran so much when allies closer to home are doing the same thing.
3) American only entered the war when it impacted them directly, and I suspect England would have only entered the war when the threat of Nazi invasion of our Land was a real and direct threat had the pacts not existed.
It would have been right to intervene, but what is right and what is done are two different things, look at the Church's role. It is impossible to say what would have happened.
4) If I'm honest it is a fact I heard in a debate about the war from the mouth of George Galloway but I'm not entirely sure where he got it from or I have recited it correctly. A quick google showed traditional news sources suggesting I am incorrect and I can't find the video where he said it,
Either way this "short term" pain doesn't seem to be leading anywhere in Afghanistan and Iraq is still more violent today than it was under Sadam.
I must say I'm a little surprised but I mostly agree with you.
1. I put this down to numbers. Hearing about X number of people being killed is terrible but you don't put names to faces, you don't know their back stories, you just know that they are one part of a larger number. In the case of Iran stoning women or the woman from China, who I mentioned in a previous post, who had a forced abortion when she was eight months pregnant, then we get the back story and the name. They're no longer just statistics. Having read about it a lot recently, it depresses me that no one really seems to care about the concentration camps and gulags in North Korea. I watched with interest the coverage of Kim Jong Un being lined up to succeed his father but not once did I hear a mention of the gulags on
any news coverage.
2. I don't hate Iran, just some of the beliefs of the Iranian government and the religious leaders that are diametrically opposed to my own (again, I feel I need another paragraph or two to adequately explain what my exact position is in order to avoid any misunderstanding but it's getting late).
I think America's rules of engagement are too aggressive and as a result are more likely to result in the deaths of coalition soldiers and innocent people.
3. Wars are never simple. Justifying them is seemingly even more complex. No one escapes war with an unblemished record of human rights. AS they say though, war isn't black and white but many shades of grey.
4. I have a degree of respect for anyone who can admit when their arguments have flaws.
The thing about any war is it doesn't start with the first shot and end with the last. As much as George Bush (...the ****in' idiot) wanted the war to be over when he declared "mission accomplished" while standing on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln., it wasn't. It still isn't. I can't see how any progress can be made. There is no doubt in my mind that Iraq is our Vietnam.
I would suggest that it's actually pretty damned difficult to work out what exactly you ARE saying
It's hard to convey an opinion on such a complex issue in the space of a paragraph or two.
