RE: [RC] [RC] [RC] WARNING - POLITICAL delete at will! - Teri Hunter
I have mixed feeling about war. Yes, I
believe it is the only way. No, I would like both of my sons to return
home safely. Am I proud of my sons, EXTREMELY.
Teri
Navy mom of 2
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Just as Truman had quoted.
First you ask them.
Then you tell them.
Then you thump them.
At all costs.
Saddam has been given ample opportunities. It's time to thump
him.
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[RC] WARNING - POLITICAL delete at will!
Well put, Shelley. For me, war isn't about personal safety,
either--but it is about a lot of the other things that Scott quoted in
his John Stuart Mill quote, and that you have also articulated
here. War is not something to undertake lightly, but beyond even
the context of our current world situation, I always wonder about folks
who claim they have no principles or philosophies that are worth
defending. I'd hate to war over something petty, but I'd hate even
worse to not have anything for which I'd stand up and fight.
My dad is one of the ones who faced being drafted in WWII, and he
had an older brother in the military and a younger brother that claimed
to be a CO. Dad also had a wife and daughter at the time (no, not
me--I came later), and was nearly graduated from theological
seminary--and the military felt that they would rather have the new
graduates take the local churches and have more mature men go as
military chaplains, so he ended up not being asked to serve. But
he says that he wrestled with this question, and it came down to
this--if he witnessed a friend or family member lying in the road, and a
tank about to run over that friend or family member, and he had a
bazooka, what would he do with it? And he said that he realized
that he would shoot the tank with the bazooka. And given that, he
surmised that yes, there was reason to go to war against somebody like
Hitler, who was running over entire populations with his military
machine.
Saddam is not unlike Hitler, and given the more sophisticated
military weapons of today and the speed with which war can be made, I
sincerely hope that we don't let Saddam get into the position of
strength that we allowed Hitler to attain by our unwillingness to join
in the fight. I am not keen to live in a world where I have to
kowtow to a dictator, nor where I would have to grow a garden and eat my
horses to survive.
Heidi
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