Praxius
Greetings!
Does it make any sense to rationalize a massive air strike against "terrorists" in or around Baghdad when the much vaunted American Air Farce bombed the bejeepers out of Afghanistan in their effort to kill Bin Laden and failed? Isn't it far more likely that Iraqi women and children were killed in the effort and is it likely that Iraqis or any Middle Eastern person will accept this strategy without hating America and Americans even more than they already do?
I'm not sure if I implied my personal opinion on this topic yet, I just posted the news.
Personally I feel this is a continual strategy the US likes to use because it's quicker and easier, in their minds anyways.
Just check out how many civilian casualties have occured in the past year in Afghanistan. Now check and see how many were killed in air strikes. In a nutshell, Canadians are doing most of the fighting in Afghanistan, yet we have far less numbers in civilian casualties then the US. And then when the US was reported to have run an air strike and killed civilians, what is their response?
"Well our sources were good and if civilians were there, then they were helping the Taliban" ~ Which isn't much of an answer to the families of those victims.
The only time I see Air Strikes as being a useful and effective tool, is against large military compounds, like air fields or bases.... but not in towns, cities or villiages. As you said, this type of indescretion in who they drop their bombs on, will continually fuel the anger towards the US.
What is driving these "terrorists" (people who have swarmed into Iraq because America made that possible..) isn't the rational ordered cause/effect evaluation of ideologies or national foreign policies, it is fanaticism. A fanaticism that producing throngs of martyrs will simply reinforce. We have ideological and religious underpinnings that fuel the conflict and to that we add the destruction of more lives and more of what was once a reasonably well developed city and nation. Who's going to bat an eye the next time the Sears Tower in Chicago or Washington DC comes under "terrorist" attack? It won't we the thousands who watched as American aircraft created dozens if not hundreds of new orphans and destroyed more of that city...while "Reconstruction Teams" are the latest pap out of the mouth of the terrorist George Bush.
Yeah I've been saying for the last number of years now, that I will not have any sympathy for the US when they get attacked again. They used the last attack for unjust reasons and milked the rest of the world for sympathy for their problems to get what Bush wanted.... now they've cried wolf too many times for me to care personally.
The only "break" in this sad story is that soon a new puppet of corporate America will be sitting in the Whitehouse and the impotent and largely disaffected Congress will continue to kowtow to whomever has the money.
It's a possibility I won't rule out, but you never know.
It's absurd to entertain the shell game of Bush and the Israeli Prime Minister talking about bringing "peace" to the region while American bombers are cementing the hatred millions already feel for America and Israel. How does this action make any sense at all?
It makes sense to confuse the public enough, so that they say one thing and do another which they fully know will counter act what they are claiming to be interested in..... it's a trend which has been going steadily on at least since Bush connned his way into power.
It's like a guy who used to be in my class in high school.... kid A would say something dumb, he'd slug him pretty hard in the arm for being an idiot.... the Teacher would catch him do this, as they're both sitting right in front of her, and then he looks dumbfounded and says "What? I didn't do anything"
It can only work for so long.
