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If more people knew the real story and its significance we'd be closer to getting rid of the hatred between the east / west.
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i have great doubt about that.
the old saying
about how truth sets one free
is just another fallacy.
why ?
because when it comes to politics
truth is a meaningless concept.
political correctness,
like art,
is in the mind of the beholder.
it's a value judgement, not an absolute.
the whole 'truth' in its' entirety
is far too large and complex for any
human minds to fully assimilate and judge.
we only are able to hold on to small tibits of truth,
a bit like the situation of the blind man
trying to figure out what animal he's touching
just by feel.
if he touches the trunk, he might guess a snake, a python perhaps.
but if he touches a leg instead then he might think it's a rhino or a hippo.
likewise how we interpret this conflict in large part
depends on where we turn our focus.
if we choose to focus on the immediate suffering of those
in harm's way then our view will quite naturally reflect our
horror at the waste of life.
but if we choose to focus instead on the harm wrought by saddam
upon his own people, if we look at the killing fields and the torture chambers
our viewpoint changes, and we now feel horror and outrage
not against those who came to stop saddam but instead against saddam himself.
did the 'truth' suddenly change ?
or merely our perception of one small piece of truth ?
so much of what we believe about this war is determined
not by truth
but by where the cameras are pointed any given day.