"I WILL HONOR THOSE WHO HONOR ME!"
O.K. We all know America is a much more just and righteous nation than IRAQ. Let me explain with the facts. IRAQ is the biggest producer of pornagrophy in the world! Also they have the largest drug trafficing problem in the world. Also there are more murders per person in IRAQ than in anyother country in the world.
David,
I don't know if I fully understand your sarcasm, and perhaps I am reading things into it that you may have never intended, but I do find it somewhat offensive.
Are you suggesting that we should have a little Iraqi style justice over here to curb problems such as pornography and drug trafficking?
Also in IRAQ parents wouldn't dare let their children play unsupervised lest some pervert abduct them.
As far as letting my child go out and play in Iraq, I wouldn't even let my child be in Iraq in the first place, supervised or not. I wouldn't want my kids to be tortured because of something that I said that Saddam may construe as not supporting his evil leadership.
Also IRAQ has a history of racial prejudice and even slavery of which they have never formally apologized.
I guess that Iraq does have their solution to prejudice, just kill those who you don't like (the gassing of the Kurds for example).
Also although they have only 2% of the worlds population they consume over 25% of the worlds depleting resources.
I am always amazed at how those who complain about Americans using so many natural resource based on our population always limit there focus to the consumption side. As an advanced industrialized country, we may indeed consume large amounts of natural resources just because of the simple fact that through our great development efforts we are now able to harness and
develop large amounts of resources that in the past had little value. We create value and for this we are criticized?!?!?! Remember that there are two halves to the equation, in order the produce we must first consume something. Production creates value for others, (otherwise our production would never be consumed). And what is this with depleting resources? God has provided for us abundantly. American innovation has only helped to best achieve the full potential of these resources while developing new ways for even increased utilization. No more than just a few percent of the Earth's ice-free land is occupied by humans, the rest remains untouched. I often find that those who complain about Americans lack of responsible stewardship with our natural resources do so out of jealousy, and in my opinion Americans have actually been very innovative stewards of Gods gifts to us.
This accounts for the fact that IRAQ is unique for its being the only country where the majority of its citizenz are overwieght and 1 out of 10 is obiese!
I would rather be overweight by choice than to lose weight by Saddam's poison gas diet. Perhaps we should starve our population here, that could help with the obesity problem. Instead of doing this, America has learned how to produce food efficiently. In 1940 one American farmer was only able to feed 18 people, today each farmer is able to feed 5 to 10 times this amount of people. This frees up much human potential that can be used for other productive endeavors. If other countries followed the lead of American farmers they would be able to feed the world 10 times over. By the way this would be a good thing. If more countries followed our lead, there is no reason why world hunger couldn't be eliminated. And I am sorry if any of the obesity that may be caused by this would offend you.
And they dump more pollution into the atmosphere than any other industrialized country.
I thought Iraq used their toxic gases on their citizens, and didn't waste it in the atmosphere. If we went through a comprehensive list of "pollutants" that we put in our atmosphere, I would suspect that I would have a very different opinion than you as to their negative effects. However, I do believe that localized pollution in America has room for improvement in some areas.
Yes when we read the facts its easy to understand why people in IRAQ think they are morally superior.
Yes when we read my point of view, it is easy to understand why evil men like those in Saddam's regime totally disgust me.
