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Originally Posted by Professor S
So if we can't do everything we should do nothing? I've never understood this argument. If we followed the ethic behind it nothing would ever get done in the world in any venue. Don't let the impossible perfect prevent the achievable good.
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I think, if you brought this point up to the thousands of Americans who are without health care or jobs, they might suggest that we could have better invested our money in our own country, rather then helping Iraq. Maybe that view is selfish. But, we are accumulating debt by the trillions, and it's going to come out of the American tax payer's pocket in the end. We have schools, health care, social security...and this war with Iraq.
It's a selfish view. But the war with Iraq doesn't change the fact that over 1 billion people on this planet scrape by on less that 1 dollar a day. I guess you have to tackle the pie one small piece at a time. Maybe we could have helped the world and our country in ways that were wiser than this war. I don't know. It's pointless to debate this because the fact is we are at war with Iraq, and now we have to fund it.