Time For Nation-building

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Our nation is at a critical point in the “War with Iraq,” which I personally believe directly relates to the “War on Terror” we are waging against al Qaeda. Many people around the world think that war is not the answer, and that we need to give the U.N. inspections more time. Mona Charen, a syndicated columnist, provides that “more than a decade of resolutions, reproaches and failed diplomacy have demonstrated, there is no way short of war to remove Saddam or coax him into civilized behavior.” Time is not the answer. If anything it is hurting our cause.
Charen points out that we now think those who argued for “peace” with Hitler are fools – rightly so. Not many would argue against that statement this day in age. She quoted Churchill as saying, “One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half." The time to act is now, not once the bombs are in place.
Saddam Hussein is well on his way to having weapons of mass destruction, and is desperately trying to cover his tracks. If the average war protester would realize that the U.S. intelligence agencies have more information than can be divulged to other countries, much less the media, and just trust that our president has all the facts and is doing the right thing, then maybe this war could have already been over and our troops well on their way back home. Granted, some will be left in place to handle the rebuilding process of Iraq, but as Charen comments, “we have an opening to affect the course of history for the entire Middle East -- the region that is the incubator for America's most dangerous enemies.” The transformation will not be an easy one, but the Arabs deserve to know democracy and human rights. “Of course war is risky, but avoiding war is sometimes even riskier,” charges Caren....