Conflict costs sketchy, question democracy for all

Imagine China stormed Long Beach Harbor. The Chinese invade California and seize the rest of America in the name of liberating disenfranchised Native Americans, detained Arabs, the two-thirds imprisoned black population and guest-slave working Latin Americans.

America has no National Guard to protect because they’re fighting elsewhere, so when the Red Army knocks down the door at 2 a.m., all are terrified. The Chinese place civilians in Alcatraz or Pelican Bay where they strip Americans nude and force us to perform sexual acts on each other.

The Chinese take pictures and threaten to reveal them to each civilian’s family to shame them if he or she doesn’t return home and spy on behalf of the Chinese program. When freed, people return home to find their families have been shot and melted by white phosphorous. They have nothing left to live for.

Wouldn’t anyone want to fight back? Wouldn’t anyone want justice or vengeance?

In an age of inter-continental ballistic missles, these events aren’t likely and China is not capable (yet) or sick enough to do any of these things to us, but someone has to others. Are the wars in the Middle East, the Philippines and intervention in South and Central America worth the cost? Will our version of democracy benefit all developing countries in the end?

—Sean Duenser, senior political science major

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