If the US goes to another war, I will stand behind our president and our country and fight for it, whether the masses choose to live like idealistic simpletons and deny the fact that the world is a brutal place is of no matter to me...
Although the image that sticks better in the mind is of college kids holding "No Blood For Oil" signs, some people object to war for pragmatic reasons in addition to idealistic ones. Some opponents of the Iraq action have very good points about the economic, security, and political ramifications of the action that can't just be swept under the rug of idealistic bleeding-heart thought. They have questions to which there is no easy answer:
- Is the US safer without Saddam, even if Iraq is now unstable?
- Is a prolonged military presence in Iraq economically sustainable?
- How will the war affect our relationship with moderate Middle Eastern nations?
- How has the war affected our moral credibility among world governments?
- How has the war affected the credibility of the United Nations?
- How has the war affected the ability of terrorist organizations to recruit new agents?
The problem isn't so much that these questions are impossible to answer, it's that a lot of people don't seem to think they're even serious. Considering the history of interactions among the US and Middle Eastern nations, I'd say they're deadly serious.