Wil's Rant

Well George is on his way safely. Now there's a load off my mind. There is always the chance that some extremist will try something when it comes to George. The same goes with the protesters. It only takes one to start a riot. In the debating on the issues a friend brought up a very good point. Well actually several. If George had waited for the U.N. to finally decide to do something, the world would in all likeliness be waiting to this day. Saddam while not possessing WMDs, would have continued to try to get them. The people of Iraq would still be suffering under him, and the region would still be living under the threat that he would attack another of his neighbors. All of these points are true. While I agree that he had to go, my problem continues to be the manner in which this was and is being done as well as the real motives behind it as I fail to see how Saddam, at the time, was any threat to the Unites States. Attacking him for the sake of the neighbors doesn't make sense as none of the neighbors wanted him to attack. If the U.N had become powerless or so tied down in bureaucracy to be effective, then it must change. The U.N. or it's security council must have the strength to make a difference in these cases. Once a decision to move militarily is made, it's military commander must have authority to act without
having to wait for instruction from headquarters, much as national forces due. In any case, my discussions today led me to rethink my position on the whole George and Iraq question. I think now that he is really only half the problem. At least half must go to the U.N. for not having the cahones and unity to see the problem and act. Having done so, the force present in Iraq today might be one that the Iraqis and their neighbors would not so strongly oppose. All that is now in the past so the question now is where do we go from here?. How do we stop the death of innocents that is going on there by both sides, American forces and terrorists? It's an awful mess there now and the paths and sides have become very tangled. I can see no clear way out at present. I only know that for peace to come there, in the very least the Americans must now be replaced by a more international force. The people of Iraq are now suffering more than ever. As this was supposed to have been done to help them, I'd have to say that it has failed. The U.N. has failed repeatedly to stop genocide before it was too late. The peoples of the world must unite to fight genocide and terror. Failure to do so will continue to provide countries, such as the U.S., the excuse for dealing with it on their own with the current situation the result.