[antimedia] antimedia: Some pray for peace....

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Some pray for peace....
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   ....others [1]pray for war to bring a lasting peace.

     As horrible as it may seem I do wish the war between Israel and
     Hezbollah goes on and on, that it spreads to involve Iran and
     Syria. I feel terrible for the losses among the innocents, Lebanese
     and Israeli, but I think that this is the only way for them, and us
     to finally have some peace.
     The âanti-warâ in the west cannot see any good coming out of war,
     and how can they when some of them probably havenât heard a gun
     shot probably in 10 years if not more! It seems to me that although
     most of them are intelligent and honest people, they still donât
     understand the way we live, here in Iraq, there in Lebanon or
     Syria. They canât understand that peace for us, the one we used to
     live in and the one the Lebanese used to live in, the Syrians and
     Iranians is not even close to what it is to them and therefore war
     for us is not even close to what it is for them.
     Death is not the worst outcome to us and Iâm sure they can
     understand if they want to but they still canât imagine it. I only
     cared that much about life when I was given a chance to live a
     decent life. Now that this chance is slipping count me on the
     cheerleaders for death; death of dictators, their killing machine
     and the terrorists, and if it means our death too then so be it.
     Some of us (those who are not free yet) will live that life you
     (anti war people) are so protective of and will value it *just*
     like you do.
     Itâs a difficult equation, to value life and then to be prepared to
     die to protect it for others but also us if we survive. Itâs still
     rather alien to most of us since we were always told that nothing
     worth dying for except a better life after death. This needs to
     change.

   The problem with many anti-war people is they have no idea how
   miserable life can be in a dictatorship. It's easy to be against war
   when your life is as idylic as it is for most western democracies.
   For those who suffer, however, war is the best of a palette of lousy
   choices. Its resolution may even bring real peace to them for the
   first time.

References

   1. http://afreeiraqi.blogspot.com/2006/07/i-wish-it-goes-on-and-on.html