Proone....
I guess it depends upon which side you are cheering for.
If my feeble memory does not fail me....seems I recall recently seeing Iraqi's dancing in the streets after they voted. Granted some of them had to clean up the remains of their friends and neighbors killed by suicide bombers outside the polling places.
You think the women of Afghanistan might suggest they have new freedom under the democratic government they now enjoy as compared to the Taliban?
What is it Proone....about 50,000,000 people that have a chance to live in freedom now as compared to living under Saddam and the Taliban? That does not count the Lebanese since the Syrians have pulled out....or the Egyptians now that elections are beginning there....or even in Saudi where local elections are beginning....or even Kuwait where the Iraqi's got the boot.
(Snotty closing comment deleted)
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being free unless made or kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
--John Stuart Mill
Last edited by SASless; 27th May 2005 at 20:05.