Why do your comments scare me? You relish the prospect of going to war with Iran, you denigrate the existence of the UN, you label the talk of "diplomacy and policy change" as boring and poo-poo Obama for not being "hawkish". You've got nothing but stick, no carrot. The world view is simplistic and militaristic. I'm proud of the generations of my family that have served in the military. But as far back as I am aware, every one of them has served because of dire need, not because they wanted us to go to war.
Violence is last resort and a resort to it means that things have failed. Sometimes you can't really help but fail as the cost of avoiding violence is too great. I'm no pacifist. But the attitude arrayed in your messages in this thread seem bellicose and wishing for a state of warfare. Is it because you feel most comfortable in that situation? I understand that you dearly love life in the military and I can see that. But does that require such a belligerent attitude toward the rest of the world in order to justify the place of the military? I'd love to see our military in a place where it is a respected force that is little used. I'm not someone who wants to see it done away with. But diplomacy has to be the first, second, third, fourth....n-1th resort. A perpetual state of warfare benefits no one but the corporate and political vultures that feed on it. Judah On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Bruce Sorge <sor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > OK, just making sure. Not sure why my comments scare anyone. I just > don't think that talking to Iran all the time is going to do any good. > To them talk is cheap. Actions speak louder than words to these people. > The world needs to get together and decide whether or not having a > nuclear Iran is a good idea. Personally I don't think it is. The world > should decide that if Iran does not do X, then we (the world) will do Y. > Then we do it. No questions asked. And now is a good time for Obama to > capitalize on his newfound clout with the world and show the bad guys > that he is not a coward. So OK, give "diplomacy" a chance, for a while. > Don't drag it out in committee for the next four years then say 'oh > well, I tried, they would not listen'. > > Judah McAuley wrote: >> Yes, I was talking to you Bruce. >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:288035 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
