Posted by
Dean Cooper on Tuesday, September 26, 2006 4:12:31 PM
People
on the Left tend to view this as though we have gone in and occupied a country
and how people in that country must feel about that. Since we wouldn't
want a foreign country occupying ours, it is assumed that naturally the Iraqi's
don't want us there and therefore we are only making things worse
and creating enemies.
But
this misses the whole point entirely. Namely, we are at war. And not just in
Iraq. We are engaged in a worldwide war against radical Muslims who seek to
destroy us.
When
you are at war, the enemy will use every tactic possible to defeat you and that
would include fighting back and using propaganda and lies to convince others to
join the fight against you. If the bad guys can convince people that the US
actually wants to control the region, that we want the oil, that we are at war
with Islam, etc, then they will gain new recruits to fight us. Moreover, since
we are at war, wouldn't this be the ideal time for our enemy to try as hard as
possible to recruit as many people as it can? Wouldn't this be the perfect time
to foment a civil war?
Why
should anybody be surprised then that going to war can at times make things
worse?
The
question is not are things better now while the war is still going on. The
question should be what will things be like after we win this war? Or, what will
things be like if we lose the war?
When
faced with an enemy truly intent on destroying us, then negotiation, appeasement
and ignoring the problem simply won't work. Those aren't choices of various
levels of poisons, they're choices for suicide.
Some
wonder how Iraq has anything to do with our real enemy and why waste time and
resources there, but the whole point of what makes a small terrorist group
lethal is the potential that it will acquire WMD's and we all knew Iraq
previously had WMD's, that they desired to rebuild those programs, and that they
had collaborated with terrorists or terrorist groups from time to time. WMD's in
the hands of terrorists is such a grave threat that we simply have to act, even
if our intelligence is not 100 percent sure, and even if it's not altogether
likely that those WMD's would ever end up in terrorist
hands.
Even a
small chance is too great a chance when it comes to WMD's and
terrorists.
Moreover, getting rid of a dictator makes other dictators think twice,
and bringing freedom to a people gives the other people of the region real hope.
People that live in freedom and democracies are the best long term solution to
the threats we all face. When the people of the region see what real freedom is
like and the prosperity it can bring, then the terrorists will have a much
harder time continuing a war that threatens us all.