The war on terror. There are many sides. The conservitives hate the liberals and likewise we hate them back, but the real question is, what should we do about the war.
I don't think we should have gone to Iraq in the first place, but since we are there, I think we're at least doing the right thing now in trying to set up a new government. But I wonder if we hadn't stepped in. Saddam was a tyrant, but the people didn't raise up themselves into protest, we did it for them. Where there should have been a revolution, there was a liberation. If people truly and deeply want to be free, they will unite and they will conquer. But America stepped in instead, before the people of Iraq united to fight, and caused more casualties all around. Because the Iraqis that we are fighting fight a guerrilla war, Americans are killing Iraqi civillians along with the enemy, and this is bringing Iraqi sentiment against us; they are starting to believe that we are evil. And we are starting to believe that they are evil, and if you read Indigored's article, you may find that some of them are evil. But it is wrong to think that all of them are evil. I sense that my life isn't going to be easy because I know that something big is about to happen. And I think that alot of people feel that way and that is why there is so much hate flying around. Fair is foul and foul is fair. Hover through fog and filthy air.
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They are not all evil and since July we have seen that as fact. But, alot of evil people are still out there and good people of many persuasions are joining to defeat them.
Since July, we have seen two free elections in Iraq and one in Afghanistan. We have also seen more than 2000 American service personell die in Iraq. The Sunnis and Shia are still fighting, but for the first time in post-Prophet Islamic history, these two rival groups are voluntarily talking together to achieve peace.
I don't know where all of this will lead. I had my doubts about war in Iraq, but I made the choice to support the effort, and I believe the effort was worth the blood, the sweat, and the toil. The Democracies being set up may not be to my liking, but they are Democracies. For the first time in all of Earth's history, people in the ME are being asked to determine their own fate and they have taken on the challenge with an eagerness unrivalled anywhere.
I am proud to have lived in this time, to have seen a new birth of freedom, to know that what my country did was right and good despite the opinion of the rest of the world's nations.
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