Reply #56: we mostly agree [View All]

[ulTRAX]

I'm not sure I posted this or not but I, too, believe the invasion to be illegal and immoral. There were other ways to bring "democracy" to the Mideast without and illegal war. We COULD have started with our so-called friends... Kuiwait... Qutar... etc. I also believe in principle that the Iraqi's have legitimate basis to resist the US occupation. It's pretty difficult for the US to expect to use force in international affairs and not expect the resistance to do the same... though one could hope they would take the moral high grond.... just as I constantly hope the Palestinians will take a lesson or two from Gandhi.

What blurs the moral clarity of this war is that I don't see either side with a monopoly of virtue. Leaving aside the matter of bitter Ba'athists, it's a clash of two irrational ideologies... arrogant, God-is-on-my-side imperialism on the part of Bush... and Islamic religious beliefs and/or nationalistic fervor on the part of some Iraqis. I, too, think the mutilation of the bodies was beyond the legal resistance. On some level everyone is responsible for controlling their own hatred.

If you're claiming I have called for any censorship... please show me where. I have called for some on the Left to reexamine their beliefs so not to fall down that slippery slope of extremist partisanship that places winning at all costs over principles. I would have thought that this was clear.