Martin Luther King's Speech Against Militaristic Foreign Policies

I believe islamofascism is a real threat to Democracy, but if the U.S. persists in bombing the crap out of every country that doesn't like them, I don't think we're going to win "the war on terror". Some estimates put up to 90% of the casualties in the current war in Iraq as civilian. They have relatives, and those people have a right to be pissed off, since the U.S. never found weapons of mass destruction.

I don't argue that Saddam Hussein was an evil dictator, but I do think it might have been a bad idea to try and "fix" the situation for the Iraqi's instead of letting them do it themselves.

I'm also not too naive to believe that the massive oil reserves in Iraq might not have been the real reason for invasion. I don't know that for a fact, because I wasn't in the room when the decisions were made. But I think lobbyists for oil companies and military contractors do their jobs like everyone else who has a mortgage to pay.

I also think we might just be setting our children up to fight a third world war, a terrifying prospect. The issues here are too complicated to see the world in black and white, good and evil. The stakes in international relations are too grave to play cowboys and indians with real bullets..

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