12-19-2004, 08:06 AM
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What you say is true SMR, but let me put it this way. In the LIFE of a NATION, a human life is the most inexpensive commodity. It means that yes, human life has to be shed (ours and others) if one has to look after the NATION's interest.
US interests in this war were manifold like getting access to arab oil, getting a long-term operating base in the heart of the middle east, encircling iran (from both east and west by capturing afghanistan and iraq), getting rid of a potential enemy for Israel and many others. I guess their planners did a simple cost-profit analysis and the results were in favor of going to war. According to them, the benefits were far more than the loss of thousands of iraqi lives and even a couple of thousand of their own!
This has happend throughout history. Wars have been waged for things even more mundane than ousting some military dictator or for so-called democracy. From Alexander to Richard the Lionheart to Chenghez Khan to Mahmood Ghaznavi to Napolean to Hitler to George W, nearly all the wars in history were fought and countless lives were lost in the name of some false cause.
CBP
tauba karu... you'll immediately be branded a kafir, jew-lover, secular-minded (yes, this the latest 'IN' gaali over here <img src=icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle>)and what-not if you even create the slightest bit of a soft corner for these hell-bound heathens! <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>
With regards to the sources, the documentary programme Panorama on BBC gave a detailed account on the events of the balkans some years back. I also read these two books on the balkan conflict written by some far-eastern writer and another one by a british writer (whose names i cant seem to recall at this time) which covered the role of the countries in discussion.
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Arrrgh... it sure's gonna be mighty rough sailin' today ... mates!
What you say is true SMR, but let me put it this way. In the LIFE of a NATION, a human life is the most inexpensive commodity. It means that yes, human life has to be shed (ours and others) if one has to look after the NATION's interest.
US interests in this war were manifold like getting access to arab oil, getting a long-term operating base in the heart of the middle east, encircling iran (from both east and west by capturing afghanistan and iraq), getting rid of a potential enemy for Israel and many others. I guess their planners did a simple cost-profit analysis and the results were in favor of going to war. According to them, the benefits were far more than the loss of thousands of iraqi lives and even a couple of thousand of their own!
This has happend throughout history. Wars have been waged for things even more mundane than ousting some military dictator or for so-called democracy. From Alexander to Richard the Lionheart to Chenghez Khan to Mahmood Ghaznavi to Napolean to Hitler to George W, nearly all the wars in history were fought and countless lives were lost in the name of some false cause.
CBP
tauba karu... you'll immediately be branded a kafir, jew-lover, secular-minded (yes, this the latest 'IN' gaali over here <img src=icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle>)and what-not if you even create the slightest bit of a soft corner for these hell-bound heathens! <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>
With regards to the sources, the documentary programme Panorama on BBC gave a detailed account on the events of the balkans some years back. I also read these two books on the balkan conflict written by some far-eastern writer and another one by a british writer (whose names i cant seem to recall at this time) which covered the role of the countries in discussion.
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Arrrgh... it sure's gonna be mighty rough sailin' today ... mates!
