After Iraq, and now Somalia (http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/01/08/somalia.strike/index.html?eref=rss_topstories) plus countless other interventions (for oil industry) in Latin America countries.
2007-01-08 15:29:56 · 12 answers · asked by mode_of_transportation 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
If people had a higher perspective they might realize what is going on. Unfortunately though, most believe what they've been raised to believe. Their country is always "the good guy" with "God on their side" while the other country is always "evil".
How do they know that? They've been told so all their lives. There has to be a "bad guy" so we can be the "good guys" doesn't there? Someone has to be "wrong" so we can be "right". It is very difficult for anyone to believe anything that doesn't fit what "they know" to be true.
If people in other countries could see the way wars are covered in the U.S. news they might realize that many Americans only know what they are shown. Many stories covered Internationally are not shown in the U.S. at all.
Both sides in every conflict truly believe they are "right" and the other country is "wrong". Many Americans believe that their government is "saving" someone, "protecting" the U.S., or "making the World safe for Democracy". They truly believe that we "have to fight the war on terrorism" to "keep America safe".
They don't realize it has the opposite effect. (Anything you focus on increases.) The anti-war people don't get it either. Being anti- anything increases the very thing you're against. You must focus on peace to create peace.
As long as you can convince enough people that "your" cause is right or they are in danger from the "bad guys" - keep them afraid and sure about the evil of the "other guys" - you can keep running the war machine.
The U.S. education systems and media glorify war and the U.S. news runs stories about people "serving their country" and "fallen heroes". Incentives are offered for getting your children to volunteer for heroism including a proposal to increase the death benefit from $12,000 to $100,000. (Neither amount is sufficient compensation for any life but it might be enough to get more poor families to hope for a hero in their family.)
The Internet may be the solution. As more people have online friends elsewhere they will realize that they're not getting the entire truth about any situation and that people everywhere are basically the same. They want a decent life for their families and constructive work. "They" aren't any more evil than "we" are.
Mother Teresa had it right when she was pro-peace and not anti-war. During Viet Nam one solution was proposed by folk singers including Joan Baez: "What if they gave a war and nobody came."
War will end when enough people realize there is no such thing as a "war to end all wars" and that judging and condemning others creates conflict instead of stopping it. When enough eyes are opened and enough prefer to focus on peace war will end.
Many are strongly invested in making sure that doesn't happen. I believe in my heart that eventually it will happen.
2007-01-08 16:28:53 · answer #1 · answered by flyingrosetb 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Asking for what? You never said. You think we are all going to assume you were meaning "destroyed" or maybe "Attacked". There are more to the Somalia situation and the Iraq war than you alone could ever register.
Weak minded people are the ones causing this chaos by spreading their fear on the table and implanting notions of destruction into the heads of the people as an attempts to make the USA look weak. The USA did not cause the genocide, and did not provoke the Iraq war. The USA can't police the entire world nor should it be blamed for the loosing battles of other countries.
2007-01-08 15:41:34 · answer #2 · answered by J.C. 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The US is letting Latin America in peace for a while, I hope they keep behaving well here. Happilly, they are too busy with the Middle East.
2007-01-08 15:39:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
read noam chomsky and find out what we really should have coming to us.
We have done some evil stuff in the last 55 years to people in other countries. Our comfortable lives are built on the backs of the less fortunate.
2007-01-08 15:39:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
http://www.independent.co.uk/search/simple.do?publicationId=55&includeSectionId=38&xsuccessUrl=index.jsp%3FtemplateName%3Dresult&xerrorUrl=index.jsp%3FtemplateName%3Dresult&searchEngineName=lucySearch1&includeSubSections=true&pageLength=25&articleType=news&sortString=by_date_desc&maxRows=500&searchString=Iraq+Oil+privitization
Here's a story our Right-wing media dare not publish or release in the U.S. War not about Oil---my derier!!
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4941.htm
Dont think So? Then please explain why Bush never ever gives an honest explanation for these facts.
British PM Tony Blair is no better.
2007-01-08 15:42:23 · answer #5 · answered by scottyurb 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So you support al-Qaida actions in the world?
I have no Mercy for Terrorists....
I hope they got all them SOB's
2007-01-08 15:42:49 · answer #6 · answered by Red 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-27 21:48:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, US is playing its part to keep peace & create a new fundamental democratic goverment.
2007-01-08 15:50:56 · answer #8 · answered by Shr| 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No not at all, they were the ones asking for it.
2007-01-08 15:35:43 · answer #9 · answered by Angelz 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No
2007-01-08 15:35:41 · answer #10 · answered by mystery_me 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋