I've noticed something crusing cyber space and veiwing "Joe" boards from various sites. About 50% of "joe fans" are anti-war. Not just the current war we are involved in, but it's like as soon as something gets ugly overseas, they say things like "it's our own fault" or "we should just stay out of it" or something else along the lines that everything that the US does is wrong, and the only way we know how to react is force and violence.

It's their right to express themselves, and hold whatever opinions they want, but my question is...what scenarios do they have for their GI Joes? Do they change the name of the USS Flagg to the USS Rainbow Warrior? Does their GI Joe team surround the terrordrome and have a sit in? Is their commander General Ghandi?

War is an ugly thing, but in some cases, it becomes nesessary to step up and show people you mean business. And in a lot of cases, it's not clear who is at fault. In Iran for example, the Sha was the person we were dealing with. He was a bloody and brutal dictator, and when the people overthrew him, we were seen as his allies. But what if we had helped them overthrow the Sha? Wouldn't we been seen as invaders protecting our own interests...like we are in Iraq right now? It's not a world of simple black and white. We have to look at the situation as it stands NOW and adjust from there. Looking at what we did wrong is good, in that we try not to make the same mistakes again, but the truth of the matter is What's done is done and your only choice is to protect your interests at the moment. Then, try to help someone else. If you try to help others over acting in your best interests, you will end up being out of resources and your soceity in ruin. We constantly loan money to foreign countries...we send aid when disaster strikes...but when Katrina hit, how many countries sent us help and Aid?

Even in trying to help others, we have done wrong. We encouraged the Iraqis to overthrow Saddam in the 90's after the first Gulf war, and it got thousands killed. It comes down to this, no one ever avioded a war by sitting on the fence. No one ever ended a war by not participating. If someone is gonna hurt you, you have two choices, get them first, or take your chances that they're all talk! And we all saw by 9/11 that these people mean us harm!

The world is not black and white, but it eventaully comes down to which side are you on? And these individuals who constantly downtalk the US and claim that violence never solves anything yet play with war toys make about as much sense as racists who hate Jewish people and swear by the bible (being that the Bible states Jesus was Jewish). Why don't they play with teletubbies or Barbies? I never hear them arguing that Cobra had it's civil rights violated becasue they are a minority and the US was putting them down for that!

Maybe I'm over reacting....but when I was young, I remember this from latin;

FACTA NON VERBA = Actions not Words.

If the pen is mightier than the sword, why did all the scribes in losing medevial armies end up dead?


What are your thoughts? But only those who agree with me please!! (Just kidding!!)