Reason for US involvement in Iraq?
Question Details: Everyone who has responded to my imploring about the war in Iraq has mostly explained how they believe the war is for oil. Now I have found information about the amount of oil we actually have here in Alaska. There is enough oil in Alaska's coastlines to supply the US for 200 years. Also, there are these new super-deep wells being dug by Russia that are over 40,000feet deep they call Cola-SG 3 wells. They have discovered so much oil that it raises the question as to whether or not the world is truely running out. I found this information from the you tube search on a man named Lindsey Williams. So do you really believe we are there for oil? I just feel this is the most pointless of wars. It is not about democracy, terrorism, liberation for Iraqi people, weapons of mass destruction, and now I'm strating to think it isn't even about oil. What the heck are we doiong over there?!
Is it okay if I can't forgive Germans for what they did during WW2?
No, it is not OK, because:The “Germany” of 1940 is not the same as the Germany of today. If you blame the 1940 German area now you’re hating millions of Poles, French and others who now live in that area.Your hating of Germans is not enough, and leaves out the many countries allied with 1940 Germany. About 500,000 members of the Waffen SS, for instance, were from non-German lands, including Holland, France, Norway, and Ukraine.If you hate the present generations of Germans born after 1945, you are subscribing to the racist “sins of the fathers” idea. That would mean that modern Americans are murderers because their forefathers murdered millions of Natives.You are denying just about every religion on earth. For Christians, for instance, you promise to “forgive others their trespasses” every time you say the Our Father prayer.Many of the Germans you’re hating were themselves victims of the Nazis . Nazi Party members were only 7 percent of the population. Many Germans wound up imprisoned or dead for violations such as being homosexual.You’re being hypocritical. There’s almost no racial group on earth who has not committed mass murder and/or slavery at some point in history, including in the 20th Century (Belgium, Turkey, etc.) The Germans did not invent concentration camps to kill civilians…the British did.The Germans officially said they were wrong, in just about every way possible. In contrast, other nations have never apologized for their genocidal ways.You are damaging yourself psychologically. Hating a large group of fellow humans means you are hating yourself, as recent research with mirror neurons shows. The Chinese saying, “Before you go out to get your revenge, first dig two graves” may apply.There are lots more, but that should get you started…