Just imagine. Iraqis aircraft flying over our heads and dropping a million leaflets directing us to tune in to Iraqis military radio broadcasts about United Nations weapons inspections and Hussein’s leadership.
Would we? Or would we think that was the height of arrogance? Assuming Iraqis aircraft would ever make it so close to our own shores, we would all be donning military attire over such leaflets dropping from our skies. Yet, that is exactly what the Washington Post reported last month had been US activity from aircraft over southern Iraq in recent days. To make matters worse, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld stated to all Iraqis listening to the US broadcasts that “this is democracy in action.” What exactly would you think “democracy” was all about if you were an Iraqis child or adolescent?
If any government leader so much as hinted that the President of the United States might want to consider asylum outside our country—as Secretary of State Colin Powell and national security advisor Condoleezza Rice suggested for Hussein—I believe we would hear aircraft engines roar for battle faster than you could swat a fly. But they don’t, we know they can’t, because we know we have the biggest military on the block. It’s noteworthy that Iraq did not react to such a suggestion in ways that we surely would have. An important question for us is: is it conceivable to defeat a giant with a slingshot? Proximity to God will not be determined by the size of one’s artillery but by the size of one’s heart. Neither side has anything to truly gain in a war with Iraq, and neither does the rest of the world.
Do we, as citizens of the United States, and supposedly heralds of a free world, really believe that we are acting on behalf of our democratic principles, and are therefore, entitled to engage in blatant arrogance?
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