A "big mistake" compounded

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By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent
Tue May 15, 4:43 AM ET


"In November, 2005, Clinton [Hillary] said an immediate U.S.
withdrawal from Iraq would be a "big mistake," and added, "I think
that would cause more problems for us in America."

In January, 2006, she said she was not advocating a "date certain"
for a troop withdrawal, and as recently as March, spoke against a
hard deadline."

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So, what is wrong with this approach?
Most likely the Senator is referring to both terrorism being exported
to the United States and to some interruption in the flow of oil due
to the say-so of the Arab Emirates or whoever.

Obviously, we do not want terrorism becoming a way of life in this
country. And just as obviously we don't want our way of life
interrupted by a lack of gas to put in our much needed street humvees.

So, is there anything wrong in this approach?
Yes, there definitely is.

What is wrong is that even with the seemingly 'even handedness' of
such a stance, it still buys into and makes acceptable the idea that
it is all right for people to kill each other, that a life should be
given to the 'greater' good, that one country has the 'right' to
invade another country (regardless of the benevolent terms used to
justify such action), and that there is some inherent 'rightness' in
one form of governing as opposed to any and all others.

The United States of America was an experiment, a trial, an escape.
It was not "founded" on the principles that it later came to adopt.
It wasn't until it was determined that this particular plot of land
was able to sustain an influx of people from all over the globe that
those people realized that they enjoyed the advantage of being like
minded enough to establish their autonomy as a nation. And even then,
like peoples everywhere today, they mostly just wanted to have their
little plot of land to grow sufficient food for themselves and their
family and to be left alone.

Still, like the country they vacated, they brought with them the idea
that those with an overabundance of material goods were subject to
having those goods taken away by force. And so today we maintain and
re-inforce that same idea. 'What's mine is mine and what's yours is
debatable.' As long as we maintain beliefs that 'we are right' and
that someone else is wrong just because we don't like the way they
do something or because they believe differently than we, then we
will always side on the thinking that it (whatever) "would be a "big
mistake" if we allow it to continue. We will forever be locked into
that thought process that concludes that maybe, just maybe, two wrongs
will someday total up to one right.