As the only country in the world now standing with Israeli barbarism can we seriously be considered an honest broker for peace anywhere in the world? I think we have lost that position in the world.
2006-07-30 03:51:58 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
This country has never had the moral high ground. This country was founded on genocide of the native peoples and enslavement and exploitation of of less fortunates
2006-07-30 03:55:17 · answer #1 · answered by NolaD 4 · 2⤊ 4⤋
No, not any more! The moral values, if any left, have all been dragged down the ocean - Pacific or Atlantic - by the present administration! And, the US foreign policy has been put to a rigorous test. Now, what is left is 'gun culture' which is widespread in the entire country and also exported to other countries such as Iraq. Looking at what is happening there as well as in other parts of the Middle East, one can confidently conclude that America cannot be considered or succeed as an honest mediator!
2006-07-30 11:07:15 · answer #2 · answered by Sami V 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hezbollah didn't want peace til they started losing. Even the legitimate Lebanese government is staying out of it. Israel has had cease fires with Hezbollah for the last 20 years, that end up lasting 3 days or so, until Hezbollah starts up again. They want something permanent. The Lebanese government needs to play a bigger role in keeping their people under the law. Hezbollah is breaking the rules of the second Geneva convention by putting their headquarters in the middle of a cilvilian population, and that's why there are so many innocent people being killed.
Morality is different for each culture, and who is to say which is 'higher', but rules are concrete, and decided by everyone.
2006-07-30 11:01:42 · answer #3 · answered by nursesr4evr 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm afraid that you've way behind the time...America is sinking, like New Orleans, and is not far from bottom.
The US no longer has any high ground to claim on any basis: (1) We know the elections were stolen in 2000 and 2004 and that so-called US democracy is a sham; (2) We know that we have the most corrupt president ever, who makes Idi Amin look like a saint; (3) We know that the Iraq war was based on lies; (4) We know that our government is composed of a gang of war criminals, profiteers, and scoundrels; (5) We know the president is a demented, ill-bred, clown; (6) We know that all American are directly or indirectly guilty of genocide (of the Palestinians and now the Lebanese, and not to mention Iraqis); (7) We know that we are being led to slaughter and mayhem by the gangsters and terrorists in office; (8) We know that we don't have an independent Congress or Judiciary in our one-party police state.
Sorry, America no longer has any high ground to stand on. We are a weak, demoralized, fearful, paranoid, vengeful, divided, dis-union-ified, third-world disaster.
2006-07-30 11:02:12 · answer #4 · answered by Pandak 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Firstly, war isn't barbarism. Neither Hizbollah nor the Lebanese government made efforts to remove civilians from harms way. War is hell.
Secondly, we lost the right to claim moral high ground long before this situation came up: secret detention camps (gulags), political prisoners held until ?, internal spying... sounds like the best days under Stalin to me.
2006-07-30 10:55:52 · answer #5 · answered by Robb 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wrong question. Are we as American or any nationality capable of claiming the moral high ground? Who is? In a time of war truth is the first casualty...not an original thought. Are you my moral superior? Am I yours? We could start a war over who is the most moral. OOPS! Some one already has climbed that hill.
2006-07-30 10:59:14 · answer #6 · answered by Devil'sFoot37@sbcglobal.net 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By not standing with Israel in its so-called "barbarism" we are giving tacit approval to Hezbollah' egregious brutality. How is that a morally superior stance? One needs to stop being distracted with the emotional impact of the civilian death toll, and start looking at the manner in which each side fights a war. Hezbollah aims at civilians in order to elicit change, while Israel attempts to attack militants, who by using civilians as shields, result in innocent deaths. Explain again to mehow Israel is the most barbaric?
2006-07-30 10:57:30 · answer #7 · answered by Lawrence Louis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Moral high ground? There never was a moral high ground. There's only ever two choices, freedom or slavery. People out there want to kill us, Israel, Europe, any free country - you name it. Your choice is either to let them or to fight. I've been told all thoughts of politics and morality and Godliness and all those other wonderful things go out the window as soon as the first bullet whizzes past your head.
2006-07-30 11:05:55 · answer #8 · answered by szydkids 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where is the outrage that Hezbollah hides in a building with rockets and thirty children? The IDF has video and its releasing it proving this is what's going on. You think Hezbollah has the moral high ground? Starting a war and hiding amongst Civilians?
2006-07-30 10:55:06 · answer #9 · answered by MEL T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes....and I think its time that Israel employed a little barbarism against the palestinian barbarism that you seem to love so much.
I think a sandstorm that wiped everything out west of the gaza strip would be a blessing.....then those backward people scratching in the sand all day would take it to be a sign from god.
Thats something that they would understand.
2006-07-30 10:55:04 · answer #10 · answered by werk2much2000 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hahahahahaha. No. We lost that within 2 years after 9/11 once we began to invade other nations pre-emptively. When I travel abroad, I am embarrassed to identify myself as an American. And even so, I feel that Israel is in the right on this one.
2006-07-30 10:56:55 · answer #11 · answered by Hugo Reyes 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋