Iraq’s Kurds and U.S. Homeless

Last August, when my former country trampled the rights of Kuwaitis, I felt ashamed. Today, after the destruction of Kuwait and Iraq, after the crippling blows dealt from the sky by my adopted country to the daily lives of so many innocent people, my feelings go beyond shame.

Would it be possible for someone like me, who still doesn’t know whether his family in Baghdad and Basra is dead or alive, to conclude that war is a solution?

I often hear that this war was a catastrophe necessary to avoid a bigger future catastrophe. It would be impossible for those who watch their children die to imagine a bigger catastrophe.

Those who believed that war offered a sound solution should now see that war is at best a messy solution, and look for a less primitive means of halting aggression.

Individual countries need to give up the arms race, accept binding arbitration in a world court and create an international policing entity to maintain order among countries in order to check aggression and avoid the outbreak of war.

MUHSIN ABO-SHAEER

Goleta