War: Iraq and Beyond

The most common words heard spoken throughout the Campaign Train is situation in Iraq. Now, ideally, the question stems back to the beginning of the war. Iraq came after Afghanistan was essentially thrown on the back burner. This came after the invasion of Afghanistan, in order to liberate the Taliban and shut down Al Qaeda, following the attacks on September 11th, 2001. Ever since, the floodgates of questions have come forth. Economic repercussions? Moral? Political? Ideal? It depends on which side of the spectrum you dance on. It depends if you have a certain connection, such as family in the military. A son. A daughter. A father. A mother.

There is, however, genuine distortion is the facts. War. Is it good? The Democratic Party has been famous for saying that war is unsuccessful, violence is not required, diplomacy solves everything...the whole nine yards. Well, let's assess some things for you.

The Civil War. Democrats refused to release the slaves and give Africans the freedom they never should've been denied in the beginning. As a result, the first Republican president in Abraham Lincoln brought the measures both as a senator and president to provide a conclusion to slavery and a providing for freedom. Equality, the supposed founding principle of this country, all though it took us this long to give it to people who are the same as the whites, just have a different skin color. As a result of President Lincoln's attempt to push forth his measures, the Civil War drew out of the southern states withdrawing from the Union. Not only was the sovereignty of the United States of America threatened (another thing that seems to be fading these days, with amnesty for every illegal immigrant and ideas of a North American Union), but the integrity of the Monroe Doctrine was at risk. The U.S. at the time was ideally, the only thing standing in the way of British influence in the west, and if they were fallen, then recolonization could occur. Tyranny had prevailed in removing themselves from the Union so they could facilitate the inhumane and abusive acts of slavery for their benefit of economy. Economy. The only reason the left refused to give up slavery in the Civil War. And it's worth noting, that this internal war has resulted in the most American casualties in any war. In fact, the Civil War had over approximately eighty times the deaths thus far in Iraq by the U.S. military. And for what? Over a Civil War.

Civil Wars aren't supposed to be fought, according to the left. If that's the case, should we have abandoned the cause of salvaging the union and suppressing the south's inhuman acts? Well, they would've liked that. Because their economy would have flourished at the expense of another race of people perceived as inferior. The splitting of families, the unlawful and inhumane treatment of people. Sounds a lot like Adolf Hitler.

Look at a dangerous scenario. If the U.S. had never regained its status as a united country, there would've been frequent warring still...here. Instability would conquer and reign just between the Confederacy and the Union. Our victories in assisting the allies in the two World Wars would've never came, because we'd have enemies right in our back yard trying to kill us at every move.

World War 1 and Germany's refusal to suppress unrestricted submarine warfare. The war called the "War To End All Wars" was really the precursor to a twentieth century of a new bitter reality: isolationism is obsolete and violence will inevitably reign foreign policy. This war would be the adaption of the United States to a world of changing way of international politics. The means of diplomacy were regrettably becoming inferior with time. World War 2 introduced a stronger problem with Adolf Hitler's rise to power through providing for a new nationalist feeling throughout Germany. The result? A tyrant who began rounding up Jews, Blacks, minorities, homosexuals, disabled individuals, among others, in effort to cleanse the world of what he saw as inferior. In concentration camps, death and torture joined the severely inhumane living conditions the people were subjected to within. Simultaneously, Hitler was engaging in an increasingly imperialistic mood by invading Europe. Then Japan was involved and they pulled the last straw by bombing Pearl Harbor. The United States was attacked. They acted. Then they came to the defense of the Allies in Europe.

Korean War was with the objectives of the Cold War: suppressing the tainted and bastardized form of communism that was overcoming the world. A twisted and manipulated form of communism, more fascist and autocratic then anything, was prominent with the Soviet Union and was attempting to spread in a growing influence war between the U.S. and the Soviets. Korea was the liberation of such a regime in the south. Why is liberation of tyranny important? Evil spreads one step at a time. If you let it spread, then like a cancer, it shall eventually overcome, as the numbers rise.

The Persian Gulf War, one of the most successful, if the not the most successful, military campaign and war in history, was to remove Iraq from Kuwait. The ideal response was to first come to the defense of Saudi Arabia and then storm into Kuwait. If Iraq had decided to storm Saudi Arabia, they would have seized much of the world's major oil production sources and thus placing a tight control on the industry. Saddam Hussein in control of oil, the world's greatest addiction and dependency? Bad news, easily. The U.S. in the second Gulf War was perceived to be in it for the oil. If the U.S. always wanted oil from Iraq, they would've went in after taking back Kuwait, because after the Iraqi military was pulverized by the bulldozer military, the U.S. could've easily walked in and taken control. This didn't happen. Instead, the U.S. entered to defend an ally and remove unlawful invaders from another ally.

George Orwell, a writer of many famous books including Animal Farm and 1984, once had an important quote regarding war: "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."

Let me remind you, without war, we would be serving the British right now.

The bitter truth is the fact that violence and sacrifice in this world is required to defend and promote peace. People will die. But the media does not acknowledge this. Death is a statistic. In fact, the media's disgusting obsession with using people dying as a method for attention is reminiscent to a quote by tyrannical dictator Joseph Stalin: "A single death is a tragedy, are million deaths is a statistic." This is true. For people who talk about soldiers dying while neglecting those alive and fighting for them. Death is just merely a statistic. The politicians have a lack for care for the troops and this is why they wish to withdraw, undoing all that has been done. A failure in Iraq defends their interests. Iraq is winnable and the surge is successful. February was the third lowest month since occupation began, of troop casualties. This is apart of a declining death rate and a rising security.

But make no mistake, occupation is still required. Unlike the fault-ridden immediate withdrawal plans acknowledge, the Iraqis are still in not a condition to properly maintain their country independently. Recently, protesters by the thousands stormed Basra Police Headquarters demanding better protection. This came after the British handed off sole control and responsibility of the Iraqi province to the Iraqis. Now if the police are failing to hold up. Why? They're no ready. Further transitioning of power is required. Further training is required.

And look at it this way, they have the right to protest now. Ten years ago, they would've been executed for such an act. Instead, their leader would be testing chemical weapons on his own citizens.

War is ugly. War is hideous. But war is at times, it is required. Self-defense and suppression of tyranny is only sufficient if you can match the opposition and overcome it. What else can you do when the enemy won't be reasonable and come to the table?