Comments on: 'Iraq and the Christian Conscience'

By: Carolus

Carolus — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 20:22:44 +0000

Good point about the leftist type rhetoric employed by war opponents in the libertarian camp, Ilana. The same applies to the Buchananite wing of the conservatives, with its own anti-Israel spin of course. The real tragedy of this mess from a political aspect is that the voices of principled opposition like yours and Mr. Sperry’s were completely drowned out by the insane screaming of leftists on the one hand and Bushevik jingoism on the other.

Perhaps if there had been a real debate instead of a shouting match about the validity of this war from parties whose positions were fraudulent, the immense tragedy we are witnessing could have been avoided.

By: Carolus

Carolus — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 20:11:33 +0000

“91 percent of Sunnis in Iraq want us to leave, and 74 percent of Shi’ites also want us out.”

But, didn’t Jorge tell us that he was a “uniter, not a divider” (along with being “the decider”)? It would appear that on this rare occaision, Imam al-Dubya was actually being truthful.

By: Stefan Karlsson

Stefan Karlsson — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 21:52:02 +0000

You can add me to the list of non-Arabist Iraq war opponents. Here I argued against the Iraq war because it strengthened Iran and increased the threat against Israel by replacing Saddam Hussein's regime (who while being anti-Israeli too, was also anti-Iranian) with a government openly allied with Iran. A Iraq allied with Iran is far more dangerous than a Iraq devoting much of its energy to limiting Iranian regional influence [Excellent; thanks for introducing yourself here. But you have to admit, this is a rarity in libertarian circles, these days. They've adopted the rhetoric of the radical left.--ILANA]

By: james huggins

james huggins — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 13:15:49 +0000

Mercer, I’ve suffered a lot at your hands over this Iraq mess but have to say I appreciate your making me think instead of react. [I’ll never forget you saying you’d rather fight the Republican Guard, than suffer Mercer’s ministrations vis-a-vis Iraq. You add spice to this blog.]

I still have no qualms about crushing a human cockroach like Sadaam but not at the incredible expense in human life as is being spent in Iraq and the incredible expense, politically, of presiding over a giant failure. General MacArthur once said “Never give and order you can’t enforce”. That’s what we have done in Iraq and it’s going to be a real mess getting out.

Some thoughts here: We can’t get out of Iraq and then hibernate from the world and become the appeasers and boot lickers that so many of our empty suits and talking heads of government and MSM would have us to do. There’s a saying in my part of the country: “If you see a snake, kill it.” If we see a snake of a North Korean or Iranian nuclear weapons lab or factory or some such, bomb it to dust. If the UN and New York Times and other American hating orgainzations don’t like it, tough beans. If we need to commit ground forces for the same reasons, commit them but finish and get out. Don’t try to make third world countries into little clones of the USA. They don’t think that way and we’re kidding ourselves if we think they do.

In short, don’t back down. There are too many out there who, because of our apparent weaknesses and lack of resolve, see this as the time in history to destroy us. If, for our own well being, we need to kick some behinds, then do so without apology. But we need to stop trying to turn the world into little Americas. They don’t want it, don’t understand it, don’t know how to operate that way and don’t really like us anyway.