re: #134 Nimed

But I’m not against any of that. What I accept, and recent history should really inform us about this, is that doing an urge to do something, anything, might have extremely negative consequences. The deaths of US troops in Iraq, not to mention tens of thousands of civilians, are a very good example of this.

Saddam tortured, terrorized, and slaughtered his own citizens and shoveled their bodies into mass graves. His regime made daily warfare against the Iraqi people. But folks didn’t see this on TV, so it doesn’t matter to them. They would have the silent suffering go on, and call it peace.