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Michael J. Czuchnicki
Michael.Czuchnicki@Verizon.Net
The
destruction of the two
What country in the world has had a continuous government
for that long, or has created the prosperity for its people that the
None.��
This matters in whether to invade
There has
been some commentary on �Old Europe�.��
These miss the reality:��
Those who oppose war, because of the deaths it will cause, choose to ignore today�s Iraqi carnage � of the most innocent.� The UN estimates that 5,000 children under the age of five to die each month � some 720,000 children in the last 12 years � as a result of the sanctions.� Even if this were halved twice, the body count of innocents is 180,000.�� The sanctions, thus, are not bloodless, except to those, who, like children, see what they want.
We have
chosen to end this regime and its �carnages.��
We plan introduce Democracy into an area where the Islamic Nations�
governments have generally failed, and blame us to distract their
populations.�� Do we have the right to
make them similar to us?� No, but� that is not our
plan.� We are simply going to introduce a
proven system of government to a region that needs a systematic solution to
their many problems.�� Arguments about
the area�s un-goverability ignore the one Democracy
in the mid-east �
As an adult nation, we are making a hard decision � as does any adult who insists that his children learn, rather that play �� to secure a better future.�� Will we be resented for this?� Yes.� That is why the backing of the United Nations matters.� This we have worked hard to acquire.
The argument against making war ignores another reality.�� It is not war.�� We bring such overwhelming force against the Iraqi army that some other word must be found.� During the Gulf War in 1991 we had a tank kill-ratio of 900:1, i.e. we lost ONE tank for every 900 Iraqi tanks destroyed.� Since then, our military has increased its potency by a factor of almost 10.�� Bombs can be targeted via satellite positioning systems.�� We can choose not only which building to destroy, but the window for it to enter.�� There is the fear that war might spin out of control.�� This the world must work hard to avoid.��
The question
of whether it is important to restrain
We fought a
bloody civil war.� There were over one
half million deaths in that war, fought to include �Black Men� in �all Men��.�� The war made
�These�
We entered,
and ended, the First World War, then turned to isolationism, so the
Oh, yes, fear our power.�� Look what we have done in the past.
Our president
is acting to make the world better.� We
should have acted in
Americans, as a race, are different.� Perhaps it is because our nation has always had a frontier.� Perhaps it is because we believe that everyone has the right to �pursue happiness.��� What other nation on earth has offered, and meant, that right to all their people?� Our activism demands that we solve problems rather than, as we did once before, hide behind our ocean walls.
We eschew �tribalism�.� The blas� New Yorker is equal to any other American � whether they just got off the boat or had their ancestors come on the Pilgrim�s boat.�� Our country is made up of states.� The rest of the world has states that are countries.� Our national government will act to stop genocide in any of our states � and now, hopefully, in any state � and the world�s people, protected by basic laws, will be better for it.
Where other nation can make similar statements, they do so with pride.��� To the tribal cultures of the mid-east we are offering the next step beyond the violence and hatreds that bedevil their cultures.�� The world has had feuds that have lasted a thousand years.�� Democracy, with a constitution that guarantees the rights of minorities, is an important part of that solution.�
We should not be abashed by our power, our success, or our vision of a better tomorrow.�� Those who are unable to envision that better tomorrow � one where so many of the poor have had a chance to better themselves, and thus avoid the path that leads to despair and then to terrorism � should ask themselves what alternatives are there.�� They should look at the price being paid by the dead and dying Iraqi children � in their thousands � and answer the question �If not now, when, Lord?�� If not I,� who, Lord?
Americans have answered both questions, through the blood of our fathers and of our sons.� This is not a religious crusade, though it may be a �Godly� one.� It certainly is an adult course of action to fix a problem.� Now, the United Nations must decide, as must the other nations of the world, whether they prefer to fix problems as adults do, or to simply close their eyes�
as children do.