Justification For Going To War

2004-09-17T20:03:00.000-07:00

If nothing else, going to war in Irag was justified because our intelligence in that part of the world for decades was so poor. On the face of it, this may sound illogical but our inablility to understand that part of the World for so many decades has put us in the mess we live with today. Obviously we had limited resources with which we could use during the Cold War but ten years after the Berlin wall coming down, there was no excuse for the neglect of the Middle East. It turns out that not only did we have very few spies on the ground in countries such as Iraq, but the ones we had, including local informants, were highly suspect and in some cases not working for the American cause at all but for a completely different agenda than our own. Couple that with CIA's shortage of agents who can speak the various Arab languages is frightening. We have never fought a lenghty major battle in that part of the World so the "boots on the ground" aspect is limited. The fact that we have many soldiers spread throughout the streets of Iraq will pay off in the long run because we will, for the first time, get a real sense of what your average Arab, or Iraqi, is thinking: what motivates them, what would it take to make their country work, the seemingly hatred of westerners, etc. From their point of view, they can now determine for themselves their opinion of Americans from first-hand knowledge instead of what is fed to them by their government and the dictators who rule them.

Just tesing my first blog

2004-09-16T19:12:00.000-07:00

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Justification For Going To War

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