The San Francisco Chronicle's Ruth Rosen is still upset about the toppling of Saddam's regime which she wanted to leave in power out of concern for the human rights of the Iraqi people. She is now campaigning against the 1991 Persian Gulf War, citing Gulf War veteran Anthony Swofford
Swofford, however, cannot forget what he witnessed. "I've never seen such destruction," he writes. "Every 50 to 100 feet a burnt-out and bombed-out enemy vehicle lies disabled . . . bodies dead in the vehicles or blown from them. Dozens, hundreds, of vehicles, with bodies inside or out . . .. Perhaps those two burnt men, one missing both arms, perhaps they were thinking they might make it back to Baghdad and their families for a picnic. This is war . . . the epic results of American bombing."Rosen reminds us to "never forget that war is hell". True enough, Ruthie, but the wrong kind of peace can also be hell. As would have been the case had you gotten your wish in 1991 and Saddam were allowed to keep Kuwait so he could steal their oil and do to the Kuwaiti people what he did to the Iraqi people.
If Ruth Rosen were President of the United States I have no doubt that she would dismantle our armed forces and gleefully surrender to the first third-world despot who asked permission to invade.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at April 24, 2003 04:17 PM