What would Ghandi do to settle the conflict between the U.S. and Iraq?

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Request for Question Clarification by shivreddy-ga on 03 May 2003 11:25 PDT

Hi,

Thank you for your interesting question. However, to help us answer
your question to the best extent, we would like to have an outline to
work on. Please let us know what format you would like us to adopt
(viz. essay form, point form etc.). Approximately how many words would
you consider as a complete answer?

Warmest Regards,
Shiv Reddy

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Request for Question Clarification by mvguy-ga on 03 May 2003 11:30 PDT

Two questions:

1. Are you referring to Mahatma Gandhi?

2. Do you mean, what would he do now? Or what would he have done a
couple months ago before the war started?

Thanks.

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Clarification of Question by halpy-ga on 03 May 2003 17:02 PDT

The answer can be in point form, and I can from the essay.  Yes I am
referring to Mahatma Gandhi.  I want to know what he would have done a
couple of months ago before the war started.

I am certainly not an expert on Ghandi but here is just a personal
view:

From what I know about Ghandi, he understood that the British required
cooperation from the people of India to maintain their power. A few
people were able to effectively control a much larger population only
while the greater population was willing. Ghandi was a great man and I
am sure he would have objected to the minority rule in Iraq over the
majority. (minority bathe party over the majority shiite population?)

As to what he would have done about the war in Iraq, I think we can
only speculate. Hopefully you will get a researcher who understands
and has read Ghandis philosophy and will be able to give you a good
answer. I do ask that you keep in mind however, that even the greatest
people do not have a solution to all of the worlds problems, and a
problem must be viewed in the context of the location and time it
happened. There is little doubt that any type of "peaceful"
demonstration in Iraq would not have lasted. It is also clear that the
peaceful demonstrations all over the world did little to change the
viewpoint of Bush and Blair.

Good luck on your assignment! I do encourage you to read about Ghandi
a bit more and also try to come up with some ideas of your own even if
you get a great answer from a researcher.

tisme-ga

What Mahatma Gandhi would have done 2 months before the war...
I do not see Mahatma Gandhi supporting Saddam. He would probably have
been in Najaf. He would have used religion and Islamic icons to bring
the people together against the war, against saddam and the allies.

Alternatively, he cold have had a very symbolic movement revolving
around oil. Similar to the Salt March. Oil of Iraq belongs to Iraq.
Not the husseins.

During the war....
During the Boer War In south Africa, Mahatma Gandhi started and ran a
ambulance corp. That was way before he discovered the Non Violence
idea

Mahatma Gandhi lived during WW2. Though he fought against the british
in his own way. He never supported Hitler. In fact he silently backed
British in their war mostly because he had his own fight at home.

Would he have bothered about the war in Iraq when he could have had
more pressing concerns in India?