Ashley,
Yet again, you revert to the typical Wesleyan fashion of speaking down to those whom you disagree with and lecturing them with your clearly superior intelligence (break out your dictionaries, seriously?)
You make a legitimate point in some cases. Weapons are not desirable things. Yet I never ADVOCATED weapons. They are, unfortunately, somewhat of a necessity in the world we live in. To deny it is to deny reality. It is unfortunate, though, I agree.
However, I would love to see you speak your Wespeak to Muqtada al-Sadr.
What kind of response do you think you would get? A veil and a machine gun, probably. I’m not sure in which order. Ask Faye Turney, maybe? Be glad of our rights here. Mine and yours.
Myself, I prefer aid to impoverished Middle-Eastern nations and student-exchange programs to resolve our conflicts, with cultural and political pressure to a great degree (Voice of America?)…not military. But we have to work with what we’re dealt. The EU didn’t work out so well with their diplomacy deal with Iran. And Iraq brought us to massing troops on their borders before they let nuclear inspectors back in.
But, if it’s your preference, then let Iran or other highly unpredictable nations gain nuclear weapons. WE have yet to use them on another nation since WWII. Do you really think they’d be so hesitant? Why should we balk in building up the kind of deterrence that prevented the Cold War from becoming an actual war?
A country that doesn’t look to the unexpected and prepare for the worst is doomed to failure. I certainly don’t want to see that happen to the U.S.
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