So it’s been six years this week.
What’s the consensus? Was it worth the lives lost in Iraq? Was it worth the untold amounts of suffering by families here and there? Was it worth the expense? When was the last time you thought about it?
As voters it really is up to us to decide the “worth” since we’re the ones who put the people in power who make these decisions. I’d be curious to know looking back, what you all think.
Six years.. it’s a long time
by
Tags:
I think a better question is what are we going to do to stop current wars and prevent future ones. I agree with IRE, but obviously in extreme situations I would try to quantify whether war costs are worth preventing some kind of greater evil, but that’s more rare than we think.
MLK Jr. called America “the greatest purveyor of violence on earth” 42 years ago, and unfortunately, I have seen little that leads me to believe we have changed from that. We’re the chief exporter of death in the world, and it’s something we have to come to terms with before it spiritually kills us one day.
No war or loss of life is ever “worth it”, and I fear that this might be the wrong way to evaluate whether or not we ought to have gone to war (and I mean in any situation, not just now).
Leave a Reply