I would add that there is still another reason that the invasion of Iraq was so disastrously immoral. The powers-that-be in America started a war and therefore all the hell that followed while not thinking that the war was very important. What could be more dishonorable?
The clear evidence that the powers-that-be did not think the invasion important? They did not expect themselves, their spouses, their children or grandchildren to enlist to help do the invading. Granted they expected someone else and someone else's spouses, children and grandchildren to enlist and do the fighting, but that's not the same thing. They will thank them for their service till the cows come home however - if they can get their faces out of plates of cheese nachos long enough.
If anyone believes as I do that the rock-bottom lowest a human being can sink is to support a war he or she expects anyone but themselves to fight or make sacrifices for, then the moral turpitude of Americans is clear. We crossed a moral Rubicon in early spring 2003 and we haven't come close to recovering from it.
That said, I hope things aren't as bad in America as you and I think they are.
I would add that there is still another reason that the invasion of Iraq was so disastrously immoral. The powers-that-be in America started a war and therefore all the hell that followed while not thinking that the war was very important. What could be more dishonorable?
The clear evidence that the powers-that-be did not think the invasion important? They did not expect themselves, their spouses, their children or grandchildren to enlist to help do the invading. Granted they expected someone else and someone else's spouses, children and grandchildren to enlist and do the fighting, but that's not the same thing. They will thank them for their service till the cows come home however - if they can get their faces out of plates of cheese nachos long enough.
If anyone believes as I do that the rock-bottom lowest a human being can sink is to support a war he or she expects anyone but themselves to fight or make sacrifices for, then the moral turpitude of Americans is clear. We crossed a moral Rubicon in early spring 2003 and we haven't come close to recovering from it.
That said, I hope things aren't as bad in America as you and I think they are.