RE: Is world better without Saddam?
December 30, 2015 at 5:23 pm
(This post was last modified: December 30, 2015 at 5:32 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(December 30, 2015 at 5:15 pm)Minimalist Wrote:They have neither the duty, nor, commonly, the opportunity. It is only our problem insomuch as we would like to offer that opportunity. I can't personally label it our problem. I can only say that we have decided, from time to time that it is, and that many of us have been willing to make the personal commitment to that at ground level. I was willing to make it "my problem", and my government decided that it was "our problem". From thence I proceed. I cannot volunteer you, and you alone cannot prevent us, lol. We interfere because we are in a position to do so. Uniquely so, at present. We're clearly not uniformly in the right, our plans can clearly go wrong...but if we, in the US, can't help or shouldn't help when we are in such a position...I weep for the globe. Who can or should help, who is in a better position to do so?Quote:Perhaps, going forward, we should leave people under their despots and tyrants, the world over,
Rhythm, why is that our problem? Don't the oppressed have a duty to rise up if they want to change their condition?
Quote:No one helped the French or the Russians to overthrow oppressive governments. Quite the opposite, the world lined up against the revolutionaries. Even the French only came to our aid when we showed that we might actually prevail after Saratoga, and let's be honest, France was still smarting over the results of the 7 Years War.-and in each case those elements are on the wrong side of history - as we have been ourselves. Supporting an oppressive orthodoxy through the consent of silence or inactivity.
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