W.W. you D. ?

I think that the situation that the Allmuseri were in were much different than other situations of violence, lets say the war in Iraq. In the present time we live in a world were violence is only warranted in very limited circumstances. That's why there is laws and courts and trials. I think that the Allmuseri, on the ship lived in a very different existence. They where taken from their homes against their will, some killed, forced to live in subhuman conditions through no fault of their own. So while I don't think that Mother Teresa or Ghandi would have fought back, I say that they were warranted. The only way to save their lives was so fight back, there was no law or justice to protect them like there is now in America. But I don't think they were a tribe of Ghandi's because, as the most extreme and pure form of a pacifist he would have never have responded with violence. But most of us are not Ghandi.

In the case of the war in Iraq this is a much different case. The Allmuseri were 100% in the right. They were being tortured to death, only to be sold into slavery. In Iraq INNOCENT people are dying because of our presence there. The Iraq people are not more safe, suicide bombers can attack at any time. We went into that country without permission and without any sort of REAL threat to the United States. So while by no means was Saddam Hussien a good person, but there was no immediate threat that warranted our invasion. There is a big difference in protecting your life from immediate danger and the Bush administration using the fear caused by 9/11 in the American people to go into Iraq.