What really surprises me to no end is that people are just coming to grips with
war crimes. Even my father told me every nation in war commits war crimes
and to believe otherwise you would have to be a fool.
Yes what America did war very bad, but consider the other guys for a minute,
I Iraq there were no WMD and everyone knew it. Saddam was a bad guy but
if he was so terrible why did America help him gain power there in the first place?
In fact during the Iraq Iran war, America provided daily photos for the Iraqi army
and we wonder why Iran doesn't like Uncle Sam. I was watching ABC news
this morning with Christine Amanpour and the Retired General who was her
guest said the only way to shore up Iraq is for a strong man to emerge hopefully
not like Saddam but a strong man. Excuse me, in order to be a strongman over
there you would have to be like Saddam to survive.
War crimes are part of the portrait of war and all sides commit them to deny
that is being unrealistic.
I am deeply troubled like no other issue on the Middle East conflict. We maybe
should never have become involved, but now there is no turning back. We have
indeed crossed the Rubicon as it were. If we embolden groups like the Taliban,
and their allies we will be fighting them every where including in our own streets.
The world is very unstable, and vulnerable to all kinds of trouble. I think there is
a chance we can make the Taliban and company come to the table and if that
happens there would be a future for Afghanistan, merely because the Taliban
would no longer be seen as being invincible.