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In Reply to: Read Noam Chomsky for a differerent slant on the war (NT) posted by juni on September 23, 2003 at 15:16:18:
Chomsky is a good challenge to preconceived ideas. For non-American take on things, I like The Guardian Online www.guardian.co.uk and the International Herald Tribune www.iht.com. A good low cost way to keep up with informed opinion. The Nation is a good leftwing rag out of DC I think. It's online too.
For me, the question is: Considering the 10s of billions of dollars that have been spent on the Iraqi adventure, and the 10's of billions that have yet to be spent, with no lasting improvement in sight, wasn't there a better way of making Iraq and the mideast safe for democracy? Seeing as there were no WMD, and seeing as Bush has admitted that there never was a 9/11 connection to Iraq, what justifies the course of action that the Americans took? the really sad thing is that the US taxpayer is going to foot the bill, and all sorts of good things will never be done, because Bush is spending the money on weapons of mass destruction.
I'm reminded of Eisenhower's famous comment, from a 1953 speech.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."
So true.
