AchtungBono
Refugee
BonoVoxSupastar said:
Hello BVS,
I respectfully disagree with your definition of "pro-war".
As you know, I support the war on terror and the war in Iraq but by no means do I CHOOSE war over any other possible solutions.
Of course I advocate diplomacy over violence, but unfortunately there are parties with whom diplomacy is not an option - Hamas and Al-Qaeda being two of them. Hamas has committed itself to the destruction of Israel and Al-Qaeda has been waging war against the west since 1991 (WAY before this current Iraq war).
How can you talk with such people???
With North Korea the talks were relatively easy....the Northern Korean dictator simply blackmailed the U.S. into giving them billions of dollars in aid in return for their halting of their nuclear program. This wouldn't work with Iran because they have billions of dollars to spare which the government happily gives to terrorist organizations like Hezbollah at the expense of the Iranian people.
More than once, Israel has attended numerous middle-eastern peace conferences in order to try and reach some sort of diplomatic solution to the crisis (the last one being in Madrid after the 1991 gulf war). These conferences always ended the same way - with lots of rhetoric and no progress at all.
The latest war that Hezbollah started with Israel in August last year only proves that talks and diplomacy are futile with people who have their hands pressed to their ears and who refuse to listen to voices of reason.
True, the death toll in this war is unbearable but we can't add fuel to the fire by criticising the armed forces and calling soldiers "killers", and by having nutcases like Cindy Sheehan spouting their hate in any forum that will accept them.
Freedom of speech is a wonderful thing but it's a horrible thing to slander the very people who are fighting to PRESERVE the right to free speech.
War is unacceptable......but so is the killing of 3,000 people who have done nothing but go to work one Tuesday morning in September 2001.
If diplomacy fails and stability is threatened, then there is no choice but to resolve the problem by force. The U.S. received the most devastating blow in its history on 911 and there was just no way it could just stand by and do nothing. I agree that the war isn't being fought the way it should have been but I'm very glad that Saddam has been removed from power.
To summarize, I am a peace-loving woman and the greatest joy in my life will be the day when governments wake up and smell the coffee....and decide to focus their attention on improving the quality of life of their own people rather than fighting other countries for nothing.
O please,..the states did went to war because they got attacked by japan,....beating the Nazi`s was just a very nice side effect.
