Musings

How many Americans died in the Gulf War?

How many were killed in the past week in nightclubs in the U. S.?


Which ones died in vain? Here are some figures. But I have to think about the millions who died in the last century to defeat men like Saddam. How many more will die if we do nothing now? Go back and read In Flanders Fields:

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

If liberating the French, Belgians, Dutch and the rest was a just war, and spending billions to liberate the states in the Warsaw Pact, including East Germany was just, why isn't liberating Iraqis and Iranians? Say, this wouldn't be racism would it? How can we say that force in the former Yugoslavia was justified, and that the first Gulf War was, why is it now so awful to finish what we started?