The Truth Is...
The truth is...
humankind will never know for sure how decisions made in today's world will shape the future we face. Arguments for the pullout in Iraq, both pro and con, lead the headlines of the day. Should we invest more lives and money in a cause that appears to have no sure end? Both sides present strong cases in the dilemma as to whether a continued presence in Iraq is justified with an end goal that is achievable.
The truth is...
a pullout won't stop the chaos - it will only strengthen the ability of those who have created the continued storm of death and destruction to sweep up more innocents in their wake on the path to meet their goals of world domination. Stop a minute and reflect on the millions affected daily by being trapped in that storm. They live a daily nightmare of not knowing if today or tomorrow or the next day will be the day that either themselves or someone they love will be mowed down in a hail storm of debris from an explosive device or have their lungs destroyed by the purposeful release of a gas that was designed to help their lives, not kill them. Unlike the tornadoes that rip through the Midwest leaving a wake of destruction in their paths, the human made storm of death and destruction never leaves the area to give the people a chance to recover and rebuild. With that kind of crushing knowledge that tomorrow can bring yet another suicide bomber to the neighborhood or a retaliatory death squad to punish you for being born to the wrong sect how can those millions who wait for the hammer of death to drop on their heads ever intellectually and emotionally recover enough to physically begin the work of recovery and rebuilding? What motivation do they have to live at all? The only glimmer of hope for them is that "someone" will rescue them from their daily persecution. If that isn't us (US) than who will give them a chance to live a peaceful and productive life?
The truth is...
as much as isolationism for the US sounds ideal, after years of struggling with this war we need those millions of souls in the Mid-East to stabilize the entire world - not just their own region of it. Washing our hands of the turmoil there by pulling out and building up our own borders won't better the situation - it will only make things worse because we need not only the resources of this region, but resources from all over the world to continue on our lives as we have been living them for years. Should we withdraw, we only create a situation in which wherever in the world we attempt to do business we will greaten the likelihood that that storm of death and destruction will relocate to ambush our attempts to continue doing business as we have had the luxury to do for so many years now on a global basis. Our world would grow small indeed if we chose to retreat, instead of standing firm. Liken it to the Midwest tornado alley, the coastal hurricane zones, the mountainous areas devastated by landslides and avalanches - if we retreat from problem areas (based on the fact that they will always be problem areas) we would create a situation where the relatively small area we have left to live in would not support us at all. In the long run, with the mentality of withdrawal, we would dig our own grave and be left to flounder and then rot in it.
The truth is...
there is no such thing as utopia on earth. That has never been the case and will be as long as we remain individually unique, but uniquely frail when it comes to being self sufficient. The truth is life has always been a struggle for survival since the day mankind first dealt with hunger pangs, the elements, and the fight to protect themselves from eating or being eaten. Long ago mankind figured out that trying to do for themselves individually worsened the situation rather than improved it and the only way to make life better was to band together to take on everything thrown at them along the way. There has always been that one person who thought they could do things better than everyone else, who thought their way was the only way, who tried to bully or coerce the group to follow their lead. Over the centuries many have died just because they lacked the resolve to say no to the intimidators of the day. Should we resign ourselves to the same fate?
The truth is...
as long as we are here, we will struggle. The truth is we can't retreat, can't pullout, can't withdraw and can't turn our backs on the world. We may never in our lives talk to another person from another country, we may never visit a foreign land, but we will always individually need those we will never know to make our world better - especially the small space of it we inhabit.
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humankind will never know for sure how decisions made in today's world will shape the future we face. Arguments for the pullout in Iraq, both pro and con, lead the headlines of the day. Should we invest more lives and money in a cause that appears to have no sure end? Both sides present strong cases in the dilemma as to whether a continued presence in Iraq is justified with an end goal that is achievable.
The truth is...
a pullout won't stop the chaos - it will only strengthen the ability of those who have created the continued storm of death and destruction to sweep up more innocents in their wake on the path to meet their goals of world domination. Stop a minute and reflect on the millions affected daily by being trapped in that storm. They live a daily nightmare of not knowing if today or tomorrow or the next day will be the day that either themselves or someone they love will be mowed down in a hail storm of debris from an explosive device or have their lungs destroyed by the purposeful release of a gas that was designed to help their lives, not kill them. Unlike the tornadoes that rip through the Midwest leaving a wake of destruction in their paths, the human made storm of death and destruction never leaves the area to give the people a chance to recover and rebuild. With that kind of crushing knowledge that tomorrow can bring yet another suicide bomber to the neighborhood or a retaliatory death squad to punish you for being born to the wrong sect how can those millions who wait for the hammer of death to drop on their heads ever intellectually and emotionally recover enough to physically begin the work of recovery and rebuilding? What motivation do they have to live at all? The only glimmer of hope for them is that "someone" will rescue them from their daily persecution. If that isn't us (US) than who will give them a chance to live a peaceful and productive life?
The truth is...
as much as isolationism for the US sounds ideal, after years of struggling with this war we need those millions of souls in the Mid-East to stabilize the entire world - not just their own region of it. Washing our hands of the turmoil there by pulling out and building up our own borders won't better the situation - it will only make things worse because we need not only the resources of this region, but resources from all over the world to continue on our lives as we have been living them for years. Should we withdraw, we only create a situation in which wherever in the world we attempt to do business we will greaten the likelihood that that storm of death and destruction will relocate to ambush our attempts to continue doing business as we have had the luxury to do for so many years now on a global basis. Our world would grow small indeed if we chose to retreat, instead of standing firm. Liken it to the Midwest tornado alley, the coastal hurricane zones, the mountainous areas devastated by landslides and avalanches - if we retreat from problem areas (based on the fact that they will always be problem areas) we would create a situation where the relatively small area we have left to live in would not support us at all. In the long run, with the mentality of withdrawal, we would dig our own grave and be left to flounder and then rot in it.
The truth is...
there is no such thing as utopia on earth. That has never been the case and will be as long as we remain individually unique, but uniquely frail when it comes to being self sufficient. The truth is life has always been a struggle for survival since the day mankind first dealt with hunger pangs, the elements, and the fight to protect themselves from eating or being eaten. Long ago mankind figured out that trying to do for themselves individually worsened the situation rather than improved it and the only way to make life better was to band together to take on everything thrown at them along the way. There has always been that one person who thought they could do things better than everyone else, who thought their way was the only way, who tried to bully or coerce the group to follow their lead. Over the centuries many have died just because they lacked the resolve to say no to the intimidators of the day. Should we resign ourselves to the same fate?
The truth is...
as long as we are here, we will struggle. The truth is we can't retreat, can't pullout, can't withdraw and can't turn our backs on the world. We may never in our lives talk to another person from another country, we may never visit a foreign land, but we will always individually need those we will never know to make our world better - especially the small space of it we inhabit.
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