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Originally posted by nfotiu@Aug 19 2004, 01:37 PM
It could just be that the fact he can play on a soccer team without fear pales in comparison to what he, his family and his friends have to live with day to day. Is it really fair for you to tell them they should be happy with how things are just because he gets to enjoy life for a few weeks. He shared some specific and personal reasons on why he is against what America did. Who's opinion is based on what they are conditioned to think? Someone who lives it every day, or someone watching from far away who thinks they know their life is better? If the people don't see that they are better off, are they really better off? The war America started with his country is probably responsible for more Iraqi deaths than Saddam was in his entire reign of power. Yet you want to tell the soccer player that his country is absolutely better off now? It is this kind of thinking, and this kind of arrogance that gets the US into trouble internationally all the time.
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Don't make me out to be a callous person ... not the case at all.
I just happen to think life under a dictator that stole a country's wealth and gases it's own citizens isn't what I would call a picture perfect existence. But that doesn't mean war isn't hell. Of course it sucks.
I'm sure many citizens of that country want the whole mess to go away, but it's hard to argue that when the situation is sorted out that they will be well ahead of where they would have been had the US just let Hussein continue on in power.
It's like asking a guy in the middle of a root canal if he thinks coming to the dentist was a good idea. Chances are he'd roll his eyes. But in a week when his mouth feels normal he's a long way ahead of where his mouth would have been without Mr. Drill.