Salaam,
Dear Waterdrop...I can only speak for myself...in the rush for total domination (hegemony)..the foreign policy that the US has always followed was written almost 200 years ago. I refer to the Monroe Doctrine. The term manifest destiny...allowed the fledgling government to go where no man has gone before...and did they march on.
Today, the Bush administration decided they would simply start where the Crusades stopped. Man could not land on the moon so let us go back to the Middle East. It is simply greed. There has been no justification for the loss of one million Iraqi lives. NONE. 1,000,000 lives. Babies, women, mothers. The world turned their backs.
Yes, some of us are angry. Accountability. Using taxpayer dollars..trillions of dollars to satisfy the greed of a few neo-cons who are paranoid...they are murdering babies.
The children of the poor of the US are the soilders. The latest statistics of the quality of recruits suggest that these poor young people have no other choices. They can go to the army or go work at Wal-Mart. So the fodder for the army is the poor. Who cares...they are poor and would just sit at home and collect disability.
War has aftermath. War has consequences that are not written in history books. It makes the warmongers look bad. Read what happened in post war Germany. Girls slept with American GI's for eggs. Think of the war-brides..girls sold to soilders so they would not have to prostitute. When there is aggression there is always a shortage of supplies. Soliders of the aggressors usually have money.
Son, please take the time to talk to the vets of wars. They will teach you the horrors of war. When you look at a man's eyes and he will not blink and holds back the tears..he will relate the truth of war.
Son, my little sisters are being raped and burnt for being Muslims in Iraq. And you ask for accountability? No son, I believe there will be the Day when Allah will ask us what did you do to prevent the daily carnage so a few filthy rich old men could grab some oil in their crusty fingers.
I pray Allah forgives me for not doing enough.