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Originally Posted by ziggytrix
You don't give a FUCK about the United States if you don't care about our legacy.
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Legacy?
Germany's legacy involved the systematic murder of 6 million Jews.
Russia's legacy involved an oppressive Soviet regime that not only took multitudes of lives in its own borders, but inspired other countries to adopt the same methods.
France's legacy involved Nazi collaboration.
Now you don't look at those three countries as evil to this day, do you? No, you probably agreed with them when they opposed the Iraq war.
Anyway, this war appears stupid and frivolous, and history may remember it as such, but we won't know for sure until we see the real political results. All I'm going to suggest is: this war is a very mild blemish compared to what other nations have done. We could have done a lot worse than knocking over a dictator. It really bothers me that the United States seems to be held to an impossible moral standard while other nations are given incredible amounts of slack. If we're going by the principle of "let he who is without sin cast the first stone," then the major players of the world community have no right to be clucking their tongues at anyone.
That being said, I didn't think the Iraq war was a good idea when it started and I don't think it was a good idea now. I DO, however, get upset when people insist that it was "immoral." Regardless of why it happened or how it was sold, the war was NOT immoral. Good things can be done for bad reasons.
Oh, and I'm not defending Ronnie's "you're not a patriot" shtick, by the way.