evolution

we are off to war. i promised i would go back away from politics and back into my uninteresting life story and the indulgence of my slightly philosophical bent, and i will stick to that promise. however, i have a topic about the upcoming war left to discuss.

one is that i believe that these efforts to remove saddam from power are necessary, and that war is the only effective means to do so. but is it the right thing? only time will tell. if this (hopefully short) war is not followed by a dedicated, prolonged reconstruction and humanitarian effort, then the american and iraqi lives spent in the war will be for naught. america and her allies can step up to the plate on this - it has done so before. the last time i checked, germany and japan - which were devastated by the allies in world war II - are today world powers with successful economies. (yes, i know, i am old enough to remember communist east germany.) iraq, if the effort is made, could achieve the same.

the hard part of this is not the war, it’s the day after. i hope our government will see it through properly, just as it is determined to remove saddam hussein.