A Youth's View From The Right

Why Liberals are wrong about Iraq: Part 2

Now I will be addressing some lesser heard reasons on why it was wrong to go to Iraq. Let's begin with:

"1000 American Soldiers have been killed." - Despite popular opinion, having casualties does not necessarily mean you're doing a bad thing. I believe that these brave Americans sacrificed their lives to save other future ones, as well as millions of innocent Iraqi and Israeli citizens whom could've been attacked by the terrorists that are now killing our soldiers. Furthermore, 1000 deaths is not that many when you compare it to the amount of good that will come to Iraq should a future democracy arise and become stable.

"Saudi Arabia was the country most responsible for 9/11." - This argument is bullshit for many reasons. 1) Saudi Arabia, as in the state itself, was not supporting terrorism. 2) Attacking would've massively destabilized the US econonmy. 3) The terrorists were trained in Afghanistan, not in Saudi Arabia. 4) They've been one of the most cooperative governments. 5) They hunt down on terrorists in their country. 6) Just because the terrorists are from there, does not mean that it was because of Saudi Arabia that 9/11 occurred.

"It increased the deficit by 200 billion dollars or more." - I really hate people who seem to think that deficit spending is inherently very bad. Deficit spending has never empirically caused the economy to lower, although the large deficit is having one bad problem which is the lower value of the dollar, I believe that eventually Iraq will lead to a stabler Middle East. Furthermore, if we cut our spending on special interest groups, which, I admit, will probably never happen, it would allow us to bring the deficit to par. Finally, a lower dollar will have positive effects until it gets too extreme or our economy has stabilized by making foreign investors come to America.

Next post I will mainly cover the reasons for going to war.

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