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Our sister site, iConservatives.org.uk suggested last April that a war on Iraq was justified on grounds of self defence, and would encourage other rogue states to improve their behaviour. Click here to read more. iGreens have been silent on the matter till now.
Here we offer some thoughts. We believe that democracy and capitalism are good for the
environment, and that feudalism, communism and state-sponsored religion are bad. We believe that the robust western defence against the
Soviet Union, led by the US and Britain in the 1980s, was a key factor in the
fall of communism in Russia and its satellite countries.
This led to huge and continuing environmental improvement. Most Middle Eastern Muslim countries are under the control
of religious dictatorships of one sort or another. Their repression of political dissent, and of private
enterprise has led to environmentally damaging ramshackle economies.
Their citizens’ welfare would be enormously improved if they were to
become capitalist democracies. Some of them including Libya, Syria, Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan have gone further and either invaded their neighbours or exported state terrorism. With a few honourable exceptions such as Ronald Reagan’s response to a Libyan sponsored bombing in Germany, and President Bush’s to the invasion of Kuwait, the Western democracies have preferred to turn a blind eye to these adventures. Western citizens have paid for this weakness in continuing
Palestinian terrorism, as well as the attacks at Lockerbie, in Kenya and
Tanzania, on the twin towers and in Bali. The
citizens of the Muslim dictatorships have paid even more, in poverty and
oppression. There is ample
justification for a careful attack on Saddam Hussain and those of his forces who
decline to surrender. Although the decision to go to war seems to have been made
early last year, the US and Britain wisely delayed the start.
This has given Saddam a chance to retire gracefully, and the United
Nations a chance to get behind the war; both may still happen.
It has also allowed time for overwhelming force to be deployed to shorten
the war, and the US expenditure on precision weapons will minimise civilian
casualties. Wars often fail to go according to plan.
However, this one can hardly fail to improve the situation in Iraq.
By bringing that country back to international trade it will improve the
welfare of its citizens and their environment.
By discouraging other states from sponsoring terrorism, it will also
benefit the West directly. Jim Thornton. Nottingham. 8 Feb 2003. Read more about Saddam and Al Qaeda here |
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