War...The war in Iraq has been a difficult subject. My friends at school have argued with me about it many times. I was in strong support of it. I believe that what we did there was right. Perhaps things are difficult now, but what do you expect from an uneducated and formally oppressed republic? Do you think that they will just calmly accept everything that is happening? Why would, after years of poverty, suppression and starvation, accept people they have been brainwashed to hate? And without the dictatorship, they now have the freedom, as they see it, to release all the anger and hate they have built up over the years. There is no possibility that our situation in Iraq would be calm and peaceful. Americans just have to accept that in doing the right thing, people may and will die. That does not mean that it is the right thing. Should the colonists have stopped the revolution just because of the atrocious death rate? Should the Union soldiers have let the Southern states secede just because tht was the bloodiest war on American soil? Should we have let Germany conquer Europe during either of the World Wars just because we were losing thousands of men? Why should we not have gone in to defend the rights of Iraqis then? Is it not our duty as the sole superpower in the world to protect others? As I once read, maybe the world needs someone to police it. If we let dictatorships run loose merely because we feel it is not our place to interfere, merely because we don't want to die, then the crimes of those evil men will be placed on our heads. We have the power to crush oppression. We have the power to help other countries rise to our level. It is our duty. Future generations will not fault us for sacraficing ourselves for others. That is called love and charity. We Americans, in all our riches and slothfulness, seem to have forgotten that our ancestors fought and died for something called liberty, not just for themselves, but for all men.