Submitted by schoolhouse, Dec 30, 2006 19:52

My personal belief is that a prime example of our inner weakness (those spoken of in the article) not only making things difficult with the rhetoric of 'antiwar' but actually possibly creating further war, is the situation of Iran today. It is interesting to note the timing of Iran's decision to resume its nuclear program. Perhaps, if the great western peacelovers (as if we all are not!) who have verbally assaulted , paraded, embarressed and villified their own nations, governments and militaries, had not made it clear to Iran that expanding the present war would not be possible, due to the lack of national and international support (due to their ever so warm antiwar actions) then a future war with Iran would have been prevented without firing a shot at a single Persian. With Iran still quaking in its boots at the thought of an international coalition (Shame on France / I wonder what they have to hide) next door in Iraq, I really doubt it would have considered resuming its nuclear program. Alas, it is likely that in twenty years time the middle east will be even more unstable and the children of the boys and girls out there now will be going out there again (well at least the hippies get another chance to pull out their old placards and antiwar badges). I admit at first, the war in Iraq seemed a worthwhile cause. When things deteriated I saw in hindsight it was a mistake. It has been too costly. However I am wise enough to see that leaving at the wrong time would put all those deaths in vain and leave an intollerable situation worse than we can imagine. Sometimes jobs have to be seen through, right till the end, or things end up worse. Personally I draw a line at cleverly pointing the blame at my own for 500,000 Iraqi deaths when in fact the vast vast majority of those deaths were inflicted by Iraqi and Insurgent terrorists who'd rather shoot than vote. I want all our troops home now but I'd rather be democratic about it and let they themselves decide whether they're doing something worthwhile. I'm certainly not going out on the street with antiwar demonstrators to make heroes feel like villains.

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