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Darryl · 30 December 1999, 02:22 PM

JohnL
"Beware of the Hun in the Sun."
"Join the Army. Help Defeat the Hun."
"Do these jingoistic
"phrases sound like the judgment was not"
"in on Germany early in the war?"

With all due respect John..no! They sound like the perfectly normal estranging and demonizing of the enemy that goes on in ANY conflict between nations. How many guys who picked up a rifle and put on a pack to go into Kuwait believed that Saddam should be left in power? I know my opinion. Why, because he was portrayed as the antichrist. BUT what happens when the Coalition forces have won? The real political machinations begin and we can't get him out because that would leave a power vacuum that Iran may fill!

I use this example ONLY because it is the most recent and glaring.(NO, I am NOT buying in to the whole Balkans thing!!) I supported (and still support) the Gulf War but the fact is that it was fought and HAD to be fought, over exactly what the peacenics cried and the politicians denied : OIL.

I don't think you will find a single example in history of a country going to war with pure and just motives.

Just my opinion

Darryl

30 December 1999, 02:22 PM	#12 (permalink)
Darryl Forum Ace Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Western Australia Posts: 919	JohnL "Beware of the Hun in the Sun." "Join the Army. Help Defeat the Hun." "Do these jingoistic "phrases sound like the judgment was not" "in on Germany early in the war?" With all due respect John..no! They sound like the perfectly normal estranging and demonizing of the enemy that goes on in ANY conflict between nations. How many guys who picked up a rifle and put on a pack to go into Kuwait believed that Saddam should be left in power? I know my opinion. Why, because he was portrayed as the antichrist. BUT what happens when the Coalition forces have won? The real political machinations begin and we can't get him out because that would leave a power vacuum that Iran may fill! I use this example ONLY because it is the most recent and glaring.(NO, I am NOT buying in to the whole Balkans thing!!) I supported (and still support) the Gulf War but the fact is that it was fought and HAD to be fought, over exactly what the peacenics cried and the politicians denied : OIL. I don't think you will find a single example in history of a country going to war with pure and just motives. Just my opinion Darryl __________________ Nunquam obliviscar Not here are the goblets glowing, Not here is the vintage sweet; 'Tis cold as our hearts are growing, And dark as the doom we meet. But stand to your glasses, steady! And soon shall our pulses rise: A cup to the dead already- Hurrah for the next that dies!