Yes, it's a tragedy under any circumstances that a person is driven to take such desperate actions just to survive. But hold on a minute, Iraq should be, and it was once, quite a rich country. So who is responsible for the 1 million dead, and millions of poverty stricken, Iraqis today? All the talk about human rights in places like China, yet we can invade and occupy a foreign country against international law, and knowing full well the terrible consequences of our actions, and still strut around the world lecturing the poor on everything from human rights and global warming to international trade and managing their precarious financial institutions.
Yes, it's a tragedy under any circumstances that a person is driven to take such desperate actions just to survive. But hold on a minute, Iraq should be, and it was once, quite a rich country. So who is responsible for the 1 million dead, and millions of poverty stricken, Iraqis today? All the talk about human rights in places like China, yet we can invade and occupy a foreign country against international law, and knowing full well the terrible consequences of our actions, and still strut around the world lecturing the poor on everything from human rights and global warming to international trade and managing their precarious financial institutions.