2004-03-08 - 5:29 p.m.

I've got some things to say about Bush.

First off, Bush is not evil. He's an ignorant, weak-willed simpleton; he is primarily interested in profiteering, but Bush is not evil. Robert Mugabe is evil. Bush doesn't hold a candle to him.

Second: Bush, by invading Iraq and Afghanistan, has demonstrable improved the life of the average Afghan and Iraqi. This is not to say that these improvements came without costs, nor would I suggest the ends justified the means in this, or any other, case.

Arguments that the 2nd American-Iraqi war should not have been fought because it was not authorized by an international body or international law are fundamentally flawed because there does not exist an impartial international body or law that is capable of both ruling upon the legality of an invasion and is enforcing itself and its decision. A UN resolution regarding the invasion of a nation is an empty document, as it is up to individual nations to enforce it.

A strong argument can be made that the invasions/police actions the US has undertaken recently have made the world a safer place. Libya, North Korea, and Iran have all taken steps recently to dissolve, or at least discuss dissolving, their non-conventional arms programs. I don't buy this argument totally, but there is not much evidence against it on a national scale.