"Perhaps most of all, public ambivalence about the Iraq war is due to generalized ignorance of military history" hypothesizes Victor Davis Hanson. I have often wondered why the Church either remains silent, spews foolishness, or barely acknowledges one of the most definitive moral issues today: The democratization of Iraq. Hanson goes on to provide a lucid, though necessarily sparse, historical background from which one can better understand the current operations in Iraq.
Reading this essay will help you not get stuck on stupid.
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Where are you stuck?
>>Where are you stuck?<<
>>public ambivalence about the Iraq war is due to generalized ignorance of military history<<
>>most definitive moral issues today<<
Fortunately, I don't think the world will ever appreciate the 2nd Gulf War and the War on Terror. It will be most unfortunate indeed if the world ever does come to appreciate the efforts of the Coalition of the Willing.
In hindsight we see how World War II could have been prevented. We look in hindsight at many of the great opportunities for peace and freedom that were missed.
If Bush has his way, he will bring freedom to the Middle East, and the world will look in hindsight and say, "George Bush was arrogant and the war was unjust."
I believe very strongly that if Bush had not engaged America in the War on Terror we would be looking back on World War III thinking, "If only we had stepped in earlier, this could have been avoided."
But hindsight can only prove that after doing everything wrong, and sacrificing another generation of young men in a conflict that could have been curtailed by employing negotiations where it was appropriate and force where it is necessary.
Personally, I don't really think people that don't believe the Holocaust happened and burn down churches because someone doodled a picture of a man that lived 1,000 years ago are going to be very civil at the negotiating table.
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