tiredemma In the First Gulf War, I saw an air-raid shelter in Baghdad being precision-bombed. The casualties were all civilian, women and children. After that I haven't watched the pictures of yet more atrocities. But the image is still fesh in my mind.
It is my well-considered opinion that the Western governments are blood thirsty. Not necessarily in its own right, but for economic gains and power over others. They won't kill their own people, but they will bring war to the weak people.
Do you think the Western governments want peace?
all you need is a declaration by the US government that it does not seek bases in the ME, is winding them down, and its troops will be home by six months, shall we say.
And that further US activities in Iraq will only be civilian in nature.
satine I live in the East, as well as in the West.
I don't hate the West. I hate the greed and the governments that regard people of the third world as sub-human.
Living in the East, if perchance your area is eyed by the greedy corporations, or lies in the path of strategic or tactical interests of the West, then you are in for trouble. There will be destabilisation, there will be militias armed by the more developed nations, there will be wars, and your children will have no chance to live a peaceful life. Or to live at all.
The West is much, much safer than the East, and those who are smart and care for their children will try to move to the West.
Because of this migration, there will be, and there is, friction; and this peace will be, and is being, disturbed.
When enough disturbance of peace occurs, the population will put pressure on its governments to stop the causes of that disturbance.