GrizzlyBear01

GrizzlyBear01

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14 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - The 'Good' War · 0 replies · 0 points

That's a bizarre response. In what way was I cynically exploiting the waging of war? Is it cynically responsive to prefer the unabashedly corrupt current government of Afghanistan to the murderous, represssive brutality of the Taliban? Or is it cynically responsive to prefer war to put down an arrant violent racist like Hitler than to let him conduct his rampages? Or is it cynically responsive to think that the world might have been a better place if Stalin had been bumped off in the early thirties.

14 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - US Hypocrisy Astonishe... · 1 reply · +1 points

There seems little doubt that there are significant issues with the NATO (read US and various allies, including some of my fellow Aussies) intervention in Afghanistan. I certainly have great concerns with the way the war is being conducted. I also have great concerns at the attitudes of many US officials on matters relating to free speech - in other words, it is only free when you say what we want you to say.

However, if there is one war going on in the world that has some justification, it has to be the Afghan war. The consequences to the Afghan people of a NATO withdrawal are horrific - have we so soon forgotten the nature of the Taliban government last time around? In this case, it seems that it is not the war as such that should be criticised, but the clumsily, stupidly and savagely destructive manner in which it is being conducted.

Regards,

A mostly ant-war GrizzlyBear01

14 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - The 'Good' War · 2 replies · -1 points

To use a cliche, there's an elephant in Raimondo's bathroom that I note he is unwilling to acknowledge. Hitler was a rampant racist, with an agenda to cleanse the world of those he regarded as unfit to dwell on the same planet as him. Would he have massacred 6 million Jews, some 12 million Slavs, half a million Romany and various other assorted unfortunates if the rest of the world had not gone to war against him? The answer is unknown, of course, but the suspicion has to be that sooner or later he would have got around to it, and possibly from a position of enhanced power he might have started in on many other racial groups.

And, yes, I know Stalin was no angel, far from it. I know he massacred millions as well, but I thought that's what the Cold War was all about. Of course, like Stalinism, Hitlerism may have fallen eventually, but the experience of the Cold War indicates that many can die in the interim - more, less, who knows?

So, maybe, there are sometimes justifiable wars. This does not mean we cannot be ostensibly anti-war, but it means we have to be extremely judicious about when, where and how we go about it.

Regards,

Mostly Anti-war GrizzlyBear01