You'll never change my mind. Simply becouse I don't look at links and papers but at what I see around me. Not at what organisations say about themselves. But at what's going on in reality.
oh, so you live in iraq? and are a member of the un? wow, i wish i lived there and didn't have to read the newspapers for my information.
or did you mean what you see in your country, where you get to formulate an opinion based on what you see and hear from other people... who must get their information somewhere... maybe from newspapers and tv?
I don't have to live in Iraq to see what's going on there. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> Do you?
Media seems to provide us with more than enough info(?) from there.
Yes. I like to listen to ppl. You would be surprised about the differend views you get from one newspaper item.
So I guess my opinion is based on what I hear from different ppl, what I hear and see in different media and on my own judgement of things.
It doesn't hurt to listen to ppl who think differently than you before you form an opinion you know. And others might agree with you but becouse of different reasons. If you always read the same, watch the same, you're influenced.
I prefer to look at things from different sides before I create my opinion about it. I try to take everything in consideration. I'm rarely completely for or against something.
Like now... we both agree on this war being illegal. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
But I also try to see what it can lead to. Maybe a better life for the ppl there. Although I don't see that happen. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" />
And I also try to look at things from a political point of view. The country I live in is a member of the UN, yes.
It's one of the leading countries against the war. But we've got elections comming up so I fear for most politicians it's just a popularity thing. (The politicians who are expected to lose much votes in the comming elections are now yelling the hardest against the war.)
And also it's politically not so smart for a tiny country to keep on flaming at one of their biggest trade/economic partners.
Do you see what I mean? There's often a lot more to an opinion or ppl stating something.
I try to find out what their motives are, what they get out of something they say. Becouse often (all the time? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />) they have they're own reasons why they say something. What they say and what they think is often very different.
Ppl get decieved often enough.
Like you, I'm against the war. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> But it started anyway. And instead of protesting against it, what doesn't help anymore, I rather try to think of what will happen there.
And based on what I seen and heared so far, we can expect a big mess there. I think we already should starting protesting against the local wars that will start there.
The best thing that could happen to Iraq (in my opinion) is that it gets devided into different smaller countries. But I don't see that happen without war too. Becouse the leaders of all the different groups will probably try to get control of all the wealth in Iraq. And I also don't see any of those leaders caring more about human rights than Saddam does.
In all those years ppl still haven't learned to live together. And war is something that's part of every culture and even seems native to human nature.
No matter how you and I feel about it. This won't be the last war we'll see.
