19th March 2003, 11:46 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Dark Lord Neo
Perhaps France and Germany and other European nations are oposed to war because in recent years they have experienced the horrors of war themselves. The US hasn't experienced a war on it's own soil since the civil war, Germany and France have, they've seen how war devestated their countries and they don't want to see civilian populations in other countries needlesly go through what they had to.
Let's keep in mind that wars fought today are drastically, dynamically different than in the World Wars. Let's also keep in mind that since this war will be extraordinarily one-sided, the potential for destruction is limited. There will be no gigantic battles like in the World Wars, no "no-man's lands", miles of trench and barbed wire. There will be no cities caught in massive battles, cities totally leveled by artillery and armor fire, because our enemy cannot fight a massive battle against us, and that method is no longer expedient. Like with our last few opponents, we send out waves of fighters, bombers and cruise missiles, smash the bulk of the enemy, and the ground forces clean up.
Using our methods we annhililated the Taliban in a country that had repelled invasions by the British and the Soviets, both superpowers in their time. Yet we routed them in about two months with a minimum of casualties. Therefore, the 'horrors of war' that Europe experienced sixty years ago simply will not repeat.
The reason those nations oppose us in our efforts is because they have very lucrative business dealings with Saddam Hussein. France, for instance, has a $60 million oil contract with Iraq. Russia also has oil contracts. Germany is suspected of selling Iraq weapons materiel as well as chemical agents, and China has sold them GPS jamming devices to use against air strikes. It's all economic. They're not anti-war at all. They just want to keep making money off of a mad dictator.
The reason many Eastern European countries are supporting us is because they know very well, and much more recently, what living under a murderous totalitarian regime is like. They had to endure that for nearly half a century.
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