Why We Are At War-A good story

[Zoomie]

I saw this story at a message board I also post at. When I read this story, I knew I had to just post it here.



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The other day, my nine year old son wanted to know why we were at war. My husband looked at our son and then looked at me. My husband and I were in the Army during the Gulf War and we would be honored to serve and defend our country again today. I knew that my husband would give him a good explanation. My husband thought for a few minutes and then told my son to go stand in our front living room window. He told him: "Son, stand there and tell me what you see?"
"I see trees and cars and our neighbors houses." he replied.
"OK, now I want you to pretend that our house and our yard is the United States of America and you are President Bush."
Our son giggled and said "OK."
"Now son, I want you to look out the window and pretend that every house and yard on this block is a different country." my husband said.
"OK Dad, I'm pretending."
"Now I want you to stand there and look out the window and see that man come out of his house with his wife and he has her by the hair and is hitting her. You see her bleeding and crying. He hits her in the face, he throws her on the ground, then he starts to kick her to death. Their children run out and are afraid to stop him, they are crying, they are watching this but do nothing because they are kids and afraid of their father. You see all of this son....what do you do?"
"Dad?"
"What do you do son?!"
"I call the police, Dad."
"OK. Pretend that the police are the United Nations and they take your call, listen to what you know and saw but they refuse to help. What do you do then son?!"
"Dad, but the police are supposed to help!" My son starts to whine.
"They don't want to son, because they say that it is not their place or your place to get involved and that you should stay out of it," my husband says.
"But Dad...he killed her!!" my son exclaims.
"I know he did...but the police tell you to stay out of it. Now I want you to look out that window and pretend you see our neighbor who you're pretending is Saddam turn around and do the same thing to his children."
"Daddy...he kills them?"
"Yes son, he does. What do you do?"
"Well, if the police don't want to help, I will go and ask my next door neighbor to help me stop him." our son says.
"Son, our next door neighbor sees what is happening and refuses to get involved as well. He refuses to open the door and help you stop him," my husband says.
"But Dad, I NEED help!!! I can't stop him by myself!!"
"WHAT DO YOU DO SON?"
Our son starts to cry.
"OK, no one wants to help you, the man across the street saw you ask for help and saw that no one would help you stop him. He stands taller and puffs out his chest. Guess what he does next son?"
"What Daddy?"
"He walks across the street to the old ladies house and breaks down her door and drags her out, steals all her stuff and sets her house on fire and then...he kills her. He turns around and sees you standing in the window and laughs at you. WHAT DO YOU DO?!!!"
"Daddy..."
"WHAT DO YOU DO?!!!"
Our son is crying and he looks down and he whispers, "I close the blinds, Daddy."
My husband looks at our son with tears in his eyes and asks him... "Why?"
"Because Daddy.....the police are supposed to help...people who needs it....and they won't help....You always say that neighbors are supposed to HELP neighbors, but they won't help either...they won't help me stop him...I'm afraid....I can't do it by myself...Daddy.....I can't look out my window and just watch him do all these terrible things and...and.....do nothing...so....I'm just going to close the blinds....so I can't see what he's doing........and I'm going to pretend that it is not happening."
I start to cry.
My husband looks at our nine year old son standing in the window, looking pitiful and ashamed at his answers to my husbands questions and he tells him...."Son"
"Yes, Daddy."
"Open the blinds because that man....he's at your front door..."WHAT DO YOU DO?!!!!"
My son looks at his father, anger and defiance in his eyes. He balls up this tiny fists and looks his father square in the
eyes, without hesitation he says: "I DEFEND MY FAMILY DAD!! I'M NOT GONNA LET HIM HURT MOMMY OR MY SISTER, DAD!!! I'M GONNA FIGHT HIM, DAD, I'M GONNA FIGHT HIM!!!!!"
I see a tear roll down my husband's cheek and he grabs my son to his chest and hugs him tight, and cries..."It's too late to fight him, he's too strong and he's already at YOUR front door son.....you should have stopped him BEFORE he killed his wife. You have to do what's right, even if you have to do it alone, before......it's too late." my husband whispers. THAT scenario I just gave you is WHY we are at war with Iraq. When good men stand by and let evil happen is the greatest EVIL of all. Our President is doing what is right. We, as a free nation, must understand that this war is a war of humanity. WE must remove this evil man from power so that we can continue to live in a free world where we are not afraid to look out our window and see crimes on humanity. So that my nine year old son won't grow up in a world where he feels that if he just "closes" that blinds the atrocities in the world won't affect him.

"YOU MUST NEVER BE AFRAID TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT! EVEN IF YOU HAVE TO DO IT ALONE!" BE PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN! BE PROUD OF OUR PRESIDENT! BE PROUD OF OUR TROOPS!! SUPPORT THEM!!! SUPPORT AMERICA!! SO THAT IN THE FUTURE OUR CHILDREN WILL NEVER HAVE TO CLOSE THEIR BLINDS...."

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[FallenAngel]

AWESOME STORY....should be enacted with every 9 year old American.

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
-John Stuart Mill

[stuntman]

I read that and it dam nearly made me cry! We are not perfect, but we fought 200 years ago for the same reasons, and till this day we still do it! I love this country, I would give my first born in order to repay it for the fruits it has given me! I might sound nieve, but I know im right! Nice article please find more! And GOD BLESS AMERICA!

[Zoomie]

I really do hope that this story will help change the opinions of some anti-americans out there. Please pass this story along!

[Ichhabe]

Well, I sure do hope that story was just fantasy. Can't scare 9 year old boys like that... ****....!

[Zach R.]

I would give my left nut to see someone send that story to Michael Moore,Bill Clinton,Al Gore,Al Sharpton,Susan Saranwrap,(its actully Sarandon),George Clooney,the list goes on.Remember,the left nut,not the right.My right nut is the one that works.

[Nachtschleicher]

Is that story real? Sory to question it, but after reading many things similar to that I just wonder... remember the female marine and the Frenchie? I forgot the details but it involved a female marine and a French person question the United State's actions.

Even if it isn't real, I'm going to print it out to show my father, and e-mail it to the fellas I know. Thanks for posting it! I nearly cried :cry: .

[Sulph8]

I'm not American, but I stand with you my American friends, God bless America!

[hood]

First, no, it's not a real story. Secondly, I think it's a horrible analogy because the father is terrorizing the 9 year old by telling him all of that. It's a sick way of getting a point across.

[GazB]

It is also not very honest... first of all that guy has been beating his wife and kids for years and this kids father has done nothing because he needs one of the products this guy sells.

Second when he tells the kid to sort out the problem earlier he didn't mention the solution wasn't to take a rifle and shoot the neighbour in the head... it was to throw a hand grenade in the window and "hope" to get the father and not any other members of his otherwise innocent family.

How many other wife bashers are there on the street are also tolerated because the oldest son might be a commie and if you take out the father that household might become communist...

[yellowking]

Secondly, I think it's a horrible analogy because the father is terrorizing the 9 year old by telling him all of that.
I think there's value in the analogy, but I sure wouldn't present it in that manner to my children.

[hood]

Yeah it should have read something more like:

Dad: The father across the street drags the the purple teletubby into the middle of the street and executes him for being a homo****** infidel. Reverend Jerry Falwell is looking out his window next door and it looks like he's cheering.

Son: Nooo!!

Dad: Yes son, he's dead. And nobody is doing anything about it. What's worse, is that the father across the street goes to his next door neighbor, Barney the dinosaur, and kicks him where it would hurt if he were male.

Son: Say it isn't so!

Dad: Yes son, and nobody is standing up to this tyrant. Is this the world you want to grow up in?

And we all lived happily ever after.
The End.

[Sulph8]

All this father-son-Saddam bonding is starting to confuse me.

[Trigger]

I think I need a hug.

[hood]

Trigger <-- :petting: ---> Hood

[Trigger]

rofl

[Mal3]

Get a room you guys! :lol:

On a different note, stories like these are not bad, but I think one of the Monty Python crew made a similar one against the war. Needless to say it didn't convince me. Not that above story convinces me.

I have my reasons for thinking that Bush and Blair are doing the right thing. Disagree with me? Fine, as long as you can argue the point instead of spouting slogans or waving wounded child-****o at my face. Anyone that disagrees and can back it up with reason will have at least some respect from me. Turning the world into a city street just doesn't work for me.

[hood]

What's also important, is that the whole war with Iraq and the reasons for fighting in one theater over another are extremely complex. There's hundreds of factors that need to be considered. For anyone to simplify it down to a single thing like oil or WMD or killing children isn't being honest to the how complicated it all really is. Some people think that the only things that go on in the world are what we see in the media.

[Mal3]

Indeed, if it isn't on TV it isn't happening. Note how the peace-at-all-cost crowd is screaming over the war in Iraq? Where were they during Chechnya? Where was Schroeder and Chirac?

Also, the different public response to Vietnam and Afghanistan. Are we seeing a pattern? I think the Pentagon has: no news is good news. Let's not be all too open about warfare, people don't like it, they just don't want to know.

I had a heated argument with two people last night and all they could talk about was pictures of mangled children. "!Would you support this war if you had children?" My answer: "If I had to live under Saddam Hussein I would support it."

Following of course by pointing out that the regime has done a lot of killing. Hell, the USA and UK will probably be hard pushed to kill more children than the sanctions are probably responsible for. This matter has been a royal mess for 12 years, just perhaps will it be resolved now. Yes there will be deaths, and that is regretable, but there would have been deaths whether it gets resolved or not. Deal with it.

The message I got from the people I was arguing with was that man should be so advanced he wouldn't go to war, thus they accept tyrrany.

If one person dies because of the war, then the war is wrong. Meaning that if a US bomb kills the person it is worse than if a person is killed by Saddam's security police and that we would rather keep the peace for one day, even if it means more people will die in the long run. AND again they are accepting tyrrany, because tyrrany is better than war.

Now, my support for this war is not of the nature that I think world powers should go into foreign countries to depose bad leaders. But in this case it is a huge bonus. What I don't like is a UN that can't even abide by it's own decisions but rather will let tinpot dictators do what they please. By taking down Saddam we're sending a message. He was the most blatant offender, he goes down, you other guys cannot any longer count on getting away with this.

Some people, unfortunately only understand violence. I don't like violence, but there comes a point where it is the only tool for solving a particular problem.