Dear Editor,
The war the United States is currently waging against Iraq doesn't make sense.
The United States rose to power via the oppression and murder of innocent people and even if it is wrong that Iraq is trying to do the same thing, the United States is the metaphorical pot to Iraq's proverbial kettle.
Iraq can't have weapons of mass destruction, but the United States has weapons of mass destruction.
Iraq can't engage in "brutal tyranny," but the United States engaged in "brutal slavery" for 200 years, and no other countries came over here and tried to blow up Washington, D.C.
The United States is currently engaging in a war to defend itself from a "potential" threat. That's like saying "an eye for a possible eye, a tooth for a possible tooth." Sounds silly, doesn't it?
If someone is still able to justify the president's war and his propaganda-laden assertion that the war is about the liberation of the Iraqi people, consider this:
1. Freedom is not a gift that can be given. If the Iraqi people are powerless to free themselves from oppression without the assistance of the United States, the Iraqi people are dependent on the United States for their freedom and are therefore not free.
2. If the United States is in fact fighting this war to free the Iraqi people, that opens a Pandora's Box of U.S. responsibility. The U.S. armed forces becomes a global police force, defending oppressed people wherever they may be on the globe. And at $75 billion per campaign, that's a box we can't afford to open, even if it is the so-called "humanitarian" thing to do. This is especially so if we consider that we still don't have universal health care, pay equality, free education or reliable child care here in the United States.
With or without U.N. approval, the United States is making a big mistake by engaging in this war. Sadly, this is not the first time our Western arrogance will lead to innocent deaths, nor will it be the last.
John Johnson
graduate student
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