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...protesters refuse to believe that “skilled and educated” Iraqis can achieve more enlightened government than Saddam??s tyranny. By implying that Bush masks some sort of Western cultural imperialism in labeling Iraq’s regime as “evil,” the protesters insinuate that we shouldn’t judge Iraqi regimes according to Western standards. Saddam cannot be held accountable for his barbarism, so the fallacy goes, because his brand of tyranny arises from cultural forces the U.S. can’t understand—cultural forces that...
...better place with Saddam removed from power. HIPJ avoids this issue, instead claiming that “23 million Iraqis are better equipped to determine their country’s destiny than U.S. bombs.” Would those be the same 23 million who have lived under Saddam??s tyranny for over three decades and have no means to topple the despised despot? The same 23 million who were coerced into giving Saddam a 100 percent approval rating in his latest plebiscite? The innocent Iraqi men, women and children who are being systematically oppressed desperately need liberation...
Likewise, if millions of people had to bet their financial security directly on Saddam??s credibility, the peace movement would have to be a lot more convincing about why Saddam will go quietly into the night. Right now, it’s mostly Americans in target cities like New York and San Francisco that, as some suggest, will pay the price if Saddam again abuses his “last chance.” But if we all put money on it, then everyone who bets wrong would stand to lose...
...persistent repudiations of the League. But just like in the 1930s, several countries today appear perfectly willing to let the world’s leading international organization be mocked and disobeyed. For the French government, securing lucrative oil contracts is apparently more important than removing the threat posed by Saddam??s weapons of mass murder. German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, meanwhile, rode to victory in September’s national election on an anti-war platform, and he has insisted that he will not support military action to topple the Iraqi regime. Those hoping France and Germany would...
...women with mock suicide bomb cartridges strapped to them, holding a sign with “No Guerra” scrawled on it. The moral inscrutability of last week’s protesters is remarkable. How can one be for “peace” and yet ignore Saddam??s war on his own people or, like these women, support Palestinian war? How can one be against the accidental death of civilians during a war of liberation and look past intentional political killings of dissidents during perpetual internal wars in Iraq and North Korea...