Comments on: Every War Is a War of Choice http://www.dennyburk.com/every-war-is-a-war-of-choice/ A commentary on theology, politics, and culture Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:44:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Truth Unites... and Divides http://www.dennyburk.com/every-war-is-a-war-of-choice/#comment-38925 Truth Unites... and Divides Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:26:51 +0000 http://www.dennyburk.com/?p=2143#comment-38925 <b>Scott</b>: "<i>If you were president, and if you were able to make the decision to go to war with the knowledge that we have now, would you make the same decision?</i>" How about having all leaders in all countries and all throughout history asking that very same question? Scott: “If you were president, and if you were able to make the decision to go to war with the knowledge that we have now, would you make the same decision?”

How about having all leaders in all countries and all throughout history asking that very same question?

]]> By: Darius http://www.dennyburk.com/every-war-is-a-war-of-choice/#comment-38802 Darius Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:15:00 +0000 http://www.dennyburk.com/?p=2143#comment-38802 To answer your question, Scott... Yes, I would make the same decision to invade Iraq. However, since I have all the knowledge now, I would send in greater forces and vanquish the enemy before the terrorists took root. Saddam was still a vile killer who threatened political stability in the region and was a danger to our allies (potentially even us). To answer your question, Scott… Yes, I would make the same decision to invade Iraq. However, since I have all the knowledge now, I would send in greater forces and vanquish the enemy before the terrorists took root. Saddam was still a vile killer who threatened political stability in the region and was a danger to our allies (potentially even us).

]]> By: Scott http://www.dennyburk.com/every-war-is-a-war-of-choice/#comment-38799 Scott Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:18:33 +0000 http://www.dennyburk.com/?p=2143#comment-38799 I agree that Bush didn't give a good answer, but I don't think that this article gave a better answer. To say that all wars are wars of choice does not solve the problem, but rather demonstrates a lack of specificity in the question asked by Russert. I don't want to re-open another discussion about Bush's intentions and all the stuff that we've talked about before. Instead I'd like to pose a question that I think gets lost in all the discussions of what mostly amounts to semantics. If you were president, and if you were able to make the decision to go to war with the knowledge that we have now, would you make the same decision? I ask because so many of the defenses of Bush that I've seen on this blog seem unclear as to whether they are defending the President or defending the war itself. I say, forget blame. Let's just say our entire government or country is to blame (if there is any blame to be assessed). If we want to learn from history, we should be clear about the lessons, and therefore do our best to see in history more than just the same political partisanship that dominates our present debates. -Scott I agree that Bush didn’t give a good answer, but I don’t think that this article gave a better answer. To say that all wars are wars of choice does not solve the problem, but rather demonstrates a lack of specificity in the question asked by Russert.

I don’t want to re-open another discussion about Bush’s intentions and all the stuff that we’ve talked about before. Instead I’d like to pose a question that I think gets lost in all the discussions of what mostly amounts to semantics.

If you were president, and if you were able to make the decision to go to war with the knowledge that we have now, would you make the same decision?

I ask because so many of the defenses of Bush that I’ve seen on this blog seem unclear as to whether they are defending the President or defending the war itself. I say, forget blame. Let’s just say our entire government or country is to blame (if there is any blame to be assessed).

If we want to learn from history, we should be clear about the lessons, and therefore do our best to see in history more than just the same political partisanship that dominates our present debates.

-Scott

]]> By: Paul http://www.dennyburk.com/every-war-is-a-war-of-choice/#comment-38798 Paul Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:13:58 +0000 http://www.dennyburk.com/?p=2143#comment-38798 Denny, I think your blog doesn't like the New York Times. Denny,

I think your blog doesn’t like the New York Times.

]]> By: Paul http://www.dennyburk.com/every-war-is-a-war-of-choice/#comment-38796 Paul Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:11:17 +0000 http://www.dennyburk.com/?p=2143#comment-38796 Here's the reason behind the choice to invade... http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/19/world/mi...amp;oref=slogin Here’s the reason behind the choice to invade…

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/19/world/mi…amp;oref=slogin

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