“All fear is a sign of want of faith”
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Of all the hot-button issues prevalent in the media over the past few years, none has garnered more attention than our ongoing war with Iraq. Critics of the war spout death tolls and supposed military mismanagement, blithely comparing the war to World War II, but they fail to grasp several key concepts that divulge its true nature. The Iraq war, far from being the convoluted mess it is portrayed to be, is actually a tremendous boon for both ourselves and Iraqis, and is going exactly according to Bush’s brilliant plan.
Perhaps one of the most misrepresented successes of the war is its inherent economic advantages. Yes, the war is currently costing our government billions of dollars annually, but to look naively at that aspect is an example of short-sightedness and severely one-dimensional thinking. By instilling an America-friendly government in Iraq, our own government is setting itself up to control one of the world’s largest oil fields, which will, in the long run, significantly lower oil prices. Taking into account the economy’s current dependence on oil and the American auto industry’s tendency for building large gas-guzzling cars, this will spur the economy towards ever-higher rates of growth and allow our fossil-fuel-burning economy to perpetuate indefinitely. Furthermore, as the war obliterates the cornerstones of the local Islamic culture, it paves the way for capitalist commercialism, which will provide even more valuable markets for our own local goods. All of this will translate directly into profit for the major corporate giants; profits that have potential for trickling down to the everyman of America.
Of course, none of this could have been achieved without the wise leadership of the Bush administration. Donald Rumsfeld pioneered a new set of wartime tactics, which thankfully allowed the war to perpetuate itself far more than it might have otherwise. By sending an insufficient amount of troops the first time, he firmly established the jobs of thousands of soldiers, allowing for more complete destruction of the Iraqi infrastructure, and setting up dramatic increases in military technological development. The length of the war, which is the direct product of the Rumsfeldian doctrine, allowed our military to further finesse almost every aspect of our armaments—from personal firearms to precision-guided missiles and bombs—so as to kill more people more efficiently than anything previously engineered.
Meanwhile, Bush courageously ploughed onwards towards the inevitable victory, even when the support of the country turned against him. Dauntless, he has, over the course of the last four years, single-handedly faced not only the Iraqi people, but the American people as well. It was his wise vision that recognized the presence of weapons of mass destruction, even though they were, and continue to be, invisible to everyone else. His wise and thoughtful speeches spurred the nation on, while his stubborn tenacity held a flabbergasted congress at bay. He truly is a clever and insightful president, willing to go against every closed-minded member of the American public.
One of the more prominent complaints about the war is that we appear to be losing it. Nothing, however, could be farther from the truth. We are currently in a unique position in Iraq. We have complete control of a portion of the capital, and are working on fixing the kinks the Iraqis have formed in their imposed democratic government. Furthermore, with all the sectarian violence, we have the Iraqis fighting themselves, in effect doing our job for us. Sure, lily-livered peace lovers cite the suicide bombings in marketplaces and on buses, but in reality they are a tremendous advantage to Bush’s grand scheme. These bombings serve a dual purpose: they help in eliminating Iraq’s infrastructure—which will make it easier to replace it with the American consumerist model—and they eliminate our most dangerous enemy, the radical fundamentalist.
Another set of prominent complaints concern the amount of troops deployed in the country, particularly the casualties the soldiers are sustaining. This argument, however, is a severe misrepresentation of facts. Soldiers want to fight in wars, which is why they became soldiers. It would be an infringement on their inherent military rights to deny them a war to fight in, and thus deny them the job they were trained to do. In addition, the casualty rate and the troop increases provide jobs to hard working Americans, lowering the unemployment rate.
A final positive attribute of the war that peace-mongers routinely fail to realize is that the war the preeminent example of Social Darwinism at work in the modern world. It allows those less-intellectual burdens of society to be disposed of in a patriotic and meaningful fashion. Thus, the innumerable casualties are not the gross inhumanity that the increasingly left-wing media portray them to be, but rather a beneficial service to the nation. As the distinguished Senator and one-time presidential candidate John Kerry said, “If you don't [make the most of your education], you get stuck in Iraq.”
There are, of course problems with the war—a peace-loving Congress, an American people that lacks faith—but for the most part, it is progressing solidly along the lines of Bush’s well-thought out and painstakingly accurate plan. More and more Iraqis are being killed or driven out of the country every day, making it all the easier for America-friendly citizens to move in. The administration, in its infinite wisdom, is even currently setting us up for a potential war with Iran, a country that might potentially have weapons of mass destruction sometime within the next decade, possibly. In short, the war is going exceedingly well. All we need to do is have faith that George Bush will see it through to its inevitable end.
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