Stepping In

I think I’m going to have to rebuttal the last blog. I read the last blog and the one before it and I do agree that the American media feeds the world with a negative image about us and a subsequent hatred. As far as the government is concerned how would you set the government up? Unless we allow the Iraqi people to elect their own officials in a democratic fashion, any government that assumes Saddam’s place will not reflect the will of the people.

For example: I can recall that the Iraqi people were at one time calling for a Muslim theocracy to assume the governmental roll. The only problem with that is that the Sunni Muslims (the religious minority) controlled Saddam’s Baath Party for many years. One of Saddam’s administrative goals was the eradication of Shiism (the religious majority). He believed that this was necessary to remove all Iranian influence from his country. It was by force and bloodshed that Saddam achieved these goals.

http://civilliberty.about.com/od/internationalhumanrights/p/saddam_hussein.htm

Open this hyperlink and it will take you to a page of the genocides he was committing against his own people: the Kurds whose blood was dirty and the Shiits whose faith was not pure.
When do we decide the right time to step in comes? In World War Two the world stood idle as six million Jews were gathered into trains and sent to their deaths. It was not until the fires of Germany spread all across Europe and the threat of the Japanese was at our own back door did we decide to act.
Were the weapons of mass destruction there? The evidence says no. But do I believe the liberation of the Iraqi people from a wicked man was a good thing? Without a doubt. The main point I wanted to touch on from the previous blog was that people should be held accountable for not stepping in. If you saw a man drowning in a lake would you simply walk by and say: “It’s not my problem.”? I don’t think so.