Thursday, April 23, 2009

Response to "Why We Fight" pg 726

I agree with this article to an extent. i agree with the three things they stated as reasons to go to war. And that the reasons we went to war after September 11th were legit and followed the three rules of going to war. However i think that we just went to war against the wrong country. The Iraqis weren't the ones who bombed the world trade centers, it was the Arabs who did and yet we still went into Iraq and have killed thousands of innocent civilians. The article talks about preventing that from happening and yet we attacked a country that didn't have anything to do with the bombings. The only reason we didn't go to war with the Arabs was because the president has a good relationship with the Arab Prince and didn't want to ruin that relationship because it would screw up everything with oil and stuff. But technically we should have attacked Arabia and not Iraq. Anyway, i am a christian and not all christians take "turn the other cheek" as literal as some people do. I take turn the other cheek as avoid fighting and quarreling with someone if it's not necessary, but obviously if someone bombs our country we're not jsut gonna let them, war is an answer if there is no other option. as long as we do it the right way like it said in the article adn not harm innocent civilians or torture prisoners for no reason.

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