… in understanding very clearly why “the world” is rushing to aid the surviving victims of the tsunami so enthusiastically (not that we shouldn’t) when there are also thousands and thousands of Iraqis suffering and dying through no fault of their own in the face of a persistent “tsunami” of occupation.
I’ve never been happy with the term “insurgent” .. I tend to think of the resistance in Iraq as made up of people who quite correctly do not want to be controlled and oppressed by an invading and occupying power, and I don’t blame them for mounting a continued resistance. There weren’t WMD’s, there was no “imminent threat”, and to many people that seemed reasonably apparent two or three years ago. And, with respect to the possibilities of civil war, in my opinion the USA has created a set of conditions that arguably can’t be worse than any civil war the citizens of Iraq might conduct on their own.
So, I’d really like to know why this is still seen as a justified war, as opposed to a tsunami of a different sort … and I don’t really know why the rest of the world isn’t as anxious to help Iraqis as they are the tsunami victims.
I think we should help both groups as much as we can, as quickly as we can … and part of that help is stopping the occupation and moving towards peacekeeping and reconstruction.
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