Ethan's Block Blog

Monday, January 22, 2007

Bush's Iraq Plan: Is It Enough?

Unforunately, I am still completely dumbfounded by the fact that this man is our president, however, that is neither here nor there. The fact of that matter is that we as a country elected him, and now we are dealing with the consequences of our actions. How much will these 21,500 troops really be able to do that the other soldiers haven't been able to accomplish? Why are we still putting up with our government elected officials being able to get away with these kinds of things when we are the ones of who have the power to elect them or take away their power? Why is it our responsibility to bring a democratic society to this country, and who are we to decide whether or not they even approve of it? We have rid them of Saddam Hussein and have planted the seed of democracy in their general psyche, but it is not our responsibility to take care of them for years to come. It is not our fault their own police system is not developed enough to support the chaos their own people have created. Yes, I agree that if we completley abandoned the Iraqi people, there would be hell to pay and the country would most likely tear itself apart. My only quarrel with the entire thing is why did we even go to this troublesome country in the first place? Why couldn't we have stepped in during the Rwanda genocide or the Congo genocide? Oh, I forgot, there's no oil there. Whoops, my mistake. There are better things we could be doing with our time, power and wealth that would do more good than bad, which this confrontation is actually doing. All it's doing is causing American families hurt, pain and family members because of one man's decision to pursue soething to compensate for something else in his life. This plan is quite possibly one of the most underthought follys I've ever heard of and if it was up to me, Bush would have been impeached years ago.

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home