Peace is worth fighting for

Peaceniks really bother me. Is there REALLY anybody out there who actually
believes that war is never justifiable? If so, please explain the proper
response to Adolf Hitler. Do you think peace rallies in Berlin would have
changed his mind? No, the protesters would have been machine gunned down
and the survivors executed or sent to death camps. Anyone with half a grasp
of history knows that Hitler was an evil man who wasn't going to stop, no
matter what happened or what didn't happen. The ONLY way to keep him from
continuing his campaign of mass murder and grotesque conquest was complete
and total defeat, which is what we, yes, we THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
accomplished in conjunction with our allies in World War II.



Similar story in the Pacific with the Japanese. The only voice they would
bow to is the voice of raw power in a crushing defeat. You can't reason
with fanatics.



Now, this is not a defense of the war in Iraq, those events are still in
motion and only later will a true assessment be possible. There's simply
too many factors to consider, including the Oil for Food scam in the UN that
very possibly goes all the way to the top and includes a significant portion
of the security council, primarily France, Russia, and Germany. Whether
going into Iraq at the time we did was the BEST thing or not, I don't know.
I for one really don't care what the French think of us, they haven't been a
significant world power for two hundred years, and we've saved their country
plenty of times, and the only thanks we get is hatred and corruption.