What is the moral high ground that supports our bombing and invading other countries like Vietnam and Iraq?

Question

How can the lives destroyed and maimed in bombing and invaded other countries like Phillipines, Panama, Korea, Vietnam, Afganistan, and now Iraq be defended morally or ethically? What is this moral high ground and how is it Christian?

Answer 1

A rhetorical question here. I think you know the answer. There is no moral high ground whatsoever, and the justification has nothing to do with Christianity. There might have been some jsutification if we had been attacked by one of these countries. The invasion of Iraq was based on 100% fabrication and lies. It's so sad that so many Americans believe them or support our invasions, even though they do not believe the lies. Christians? No. Ostriches? Yes.

Answer 2

The high ground in Korea was that a government that had been part of the Truce with Japan( We split Korea in half: one part going to Russia the other to us) was being assaulted by the North Koreans , who were Communist. We didn't start it and we have had a cease fire for 53 years. The UN authorized this war primarily because the USSR was boycotting the UN.

In Vietnam it was over the same essentially, except the way we got into it. The powers thought that one after another of these nations would go Communist like Domino's!.

Philippines was a long story and we won at a high cost in lives, especially Filipinos. We had wanted to make it a territory and it was part of a treaty between us and the Spanish

Iraq:there is no high ground morally or ethically. Nothing christian about Iraq. We were killing more children under 5 with our blockades the Hussein ever thought of killing!

It would take to long to answer these!

In short, forget the Christian part because none of these were crusades. And how many would have lost their lives in some of the wars is a toss-up

The only ethical reason was for stability in the world or region , though Communism was the root of everything bad and the reason we did anything!

Answer 3

The United States dod not invade Vietnam. We stood up for the democratic South Vietnam at their request, and while the war was not fought in a smart manner, and we did ultimately retreat, the war was a success, because it stopped the spread of communism in the south pacific.

Saddam Hussein was a menace. Just look at the manner in which he became the president of Iraq, through the use of terror and intimidation, and immediately hung 50+ individuals that he percieved as disloyal. He gassed his enemies, and even his own citizens, and invaded a neighbor with no provocation.

He was known to harbor terrorists and extremist groups, and was always thumbing his nose at the impotent United Nations, who had not the back bone or testicular fortitude to back up any of the sanctions that were placed upon that nation.

And, if you want the job done right, you'd better go and do it yourself.

Answer 4

If you're speaking with respect to the United State's role in these events then my answer is from a morality standpoint our leaders at the time of these events, along with both popular and majority vote, felt we were defending a peoples in the name of democracy. Despite how opinions of these events may have changed 'after the fact'. With regard to "how is it Christian", none of these events from a US standpoint were approached from a religious view. We didn't involve ourselves in any of these events in the hopes or expectations of changing the choice of religion in these countries, only in the hopes of quelling the quests of those who DID wish to do just that.

While ultimately many, if not most of these events, have since become actions that have both divided people and placed them in extreme opposing positions I firmly believe that our country as a whole believed in what we were doing at the outset. The world has been waging these wars upon one another for centuries in the name of religion, freedom and the pursuit of prosperity and it's my opinion that this will continue as long as peoples of the world continue to place their values in whats best for tomorrow rather than whats best for our children's-children's tomorrows. As smart as we think we are as a human race, we seem to somehow invariably overlook simple common sense, compassion and understanding all for the sake of individual selfish prosperity.

Answer 5

Christian?.....the Christian Crusades were about as bloody as it gets....at least History describes the battles and invasions as such.....The main act of war (though many reasons can trigger it) is to protect the folks that aren't able to protect themselves....

Answer 6

if i not wrong, i read somewhere that in Vietnam,a squad of US soldiers slaughter an entire village.So US troops don't really want to free the civilians after all...

Answer 7

Why don't you ask the French why the US saved their asses in Vietnam? Why don't you ask them why the US funded their war?

Answer 8

You can ask the same question of the arabs as well