I could not think of anything that I think the government should do. I thought about it and thought about it, then I realized that I do not think that they should do very much in general. Something I think the United States government should do is decrease its actions. A good place to start would be to bring US troops home from Iraq.
The war in Iraq was based on lies, one of which was that the attacks on September 11 were committed by an independent terrorist group called Al Queda. There are whole websites, organizations, and movies dedicated to showing people that what the government told the public about the attacks was not what really happened. Since there is so much information on that readily available, I will not go into much detail about that here. A good site with more information on that is Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth http://www.ae911truth.org/. Built on the lie of the events of 9/11, President Bush then said that “Al Queda” was in Iraq. Bush also said that Iraq had “weapons of mass destruction” (WMDs). He made those claims even though there was no evidence of either.
Year after year there has been needless violence and destruction. About 90,000 Iraqi civilians have died due to the war and several thousand American soldiers have died too. Iraq has become war torn and their economy has been highly damaged and restricted. The technological advancements they had made in areas such as medicine have been displaced. Many of the structures and places resembling their cultural heritage have been reduced to ruins. Numerous polls show that about 80% of Iraqi citizens want the US out of Iraq. Very few Iraqi people think that US forces are there to help the Iraqi people or to set up a true democracy.
A common rejection to pulling US troops out of Iraq is that America can't just abandon the mess it started. Taking the troops out does not equate to abandoning the mess that was made because Washington can still do diplomatic work and space can be made for actually beneficial organizations to go in there and help. The billions of dollars spent on the military effort in Iraq could be spent on reconstruction, and money could also be given to the Iraqi people.
The United States government has done far more harm than good in Iraq and owes the Iraqi people a huge debt. I think the US government needs to reduce it's actions in general, and bringing the troops home could be a good step. Much mending would need to take place, but it took the federal government over 200 years to get the high point of activity it's now at, and it could take a long time to significantly reduce it.
2 comments:
I agree with my colleague’s blog when it comes to the United States government doing less. The founding fathers never meant for the federal government to be as powerful as it has become. Unfortunately once one has had a taste of power it is difficult to go back to being second banana. The government is not going to surrender any of its power to the people or state governments.
While I do not claim to know who is responsible for the 9/11 attacks, I do agree that our presence in Iraq is unwanted and unnecessary. It is not our place to be the big brother or policeman of the world. We went in looking for weapons of mass destruction. We found none. We should have pulled out. It is not our place to set up a new form government in another country; especially in a country where the majority of citizens do not want our help.
I must admit that I do agree with you on your statement that the government should do much less than it is at the moment. However, saying that 9/11 and the Iraq war are based on lies is a little much. Conspiracy sites are just that: conspiracies. We can’t say for sure whether or not 9/11 and the reasons for the Iraq war are lies. We have no proof one way or the other. It’s like an Atheist arguing with a Christian; neither have proof of their beliefs so the debate goes nowhere and both sides are left pissed off at one another.
Instead of focusing on conspiracies we should be focused on issues that are facing our nation and others. Conspiracy theories are a dead-end road and they, depressingly enough, take up the majority of the stories in our newspapers because they seem to catch more interest than what’s really happening in our nation.
Despite my negativity towards your use of conspiracies I do agree with you that we should have pulled out of Iraq a long time ago. No WMDs means nothing else to look for or fight against. Although I really don’t think our federal government is at a “high point”. We are supposedly free and yet we are censored and wire-tapped by our government. Definitely not my idea of a “high point” in our system.
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