[Charles32265]

I could politicize this a lot. But this is the truth, young Kara: People fight and die for only a few reasons. They fight because they fear for the safety of their families. They fight because they believe their country needs them. The fight because they believe they can win their freedom. And, occasionally, people do fight for money or rewards. These reasons are common to every soldier – ever. You can find men and women fighting for all of these reasons in the American Army; you can find them fighting for the same things in Al-Qaeda terror cells. In the Iraqi Republican Guard, in the Nazi Wehrmacht, in the Allied Forces during WWII – even in the Roman Legions or in the army of Alexander the Great. Men fought the American Civil War – on both sides – for these causes. It is only after wars end that history decides which side was right and which was wrong. And in the end, history’s judgment has very little to do with the people who did the fighting and the dying. Pray that all wars be brief; and pray that the leaders who start them remember they are calling people to die for their cause. In the specific case of Iraq, Saddam Hussein was not a good man. He was calling his people to fight needlessly, and he was calling them to kill innocent people in their own country and their neighbor-states. But he did this in the 1980s. Why America decided to ignore this for twenty years, I do not know. Why America decided to sweep in in 2003, I do not know. But I suspect it had little to do with Saddam Hussein’s poor leadership twenty years ago, or his actions in the last Gulf war, or his alleged connections to Al-Qaeda, or his still-unlocated ‘weapons of mass destruction’. I don’t know the real reason we went there and killed a lot of Iraqis and lost a lot of Americans. And I think all of us – young, old, rich, poor, liberal and conservative – should be asking why.

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Name : Charles32265, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 24, City : Albuquerque, State : NM, Country : United States, Occupation : Architect, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class, 

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