A recent letter titled "Better men keep weak men free" quoted
John Stuart Mill to portray the Iraq war as a show of strength.
It would appear that some among us fail to understand true
strength.
President Kennedy removed Soviet missiles from Cuba in 1962
without firing a shot. The Soviet Union was one of the world's
superpowers of the day, yet Kennedy made the Soviets do his bidding
without loss of blood.
Now that is true political, military and moral strength.
Conversely, post 1991, Saddam Hussein was not a threat to our
freedom as he lacked a navy, an air force, intercontinental missiles
and weapons of mass destruction. Yet President Bush, controlling by
far the most powerful military on earth, spends a billion dollars a
week, as well as hundreds of fine young American lives, to remove
this has-been dictator of a much smaller country.
This is not a show of true strength, no matter how good it might
look on Fox News. This is a juvenile bully attacking a much weaker
foe, yet pathetically failing to prevail decisively.
Connoisseurs of military victory laugh at Bush's lame efforts.
Even more, the Iraq war makes al-Qaeda, the true enemy of the United
States, stronger. Any war that makes the real enemy stronger is not
an exhibition of strength. Rather, it is an exhibition of weakness,
incompetence and stupidity.
