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Subject:	Re: Genocide and terrorism (Was: SW <-> Russia conspiracy)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Mon, 17 May 1999 23:58:01 GMT
Reply-To:	lpien@ctp.iwantnospam!Spamcake!.com
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Sproaticus wrote: > > Larry Pieniazek wrote: > > The US is not the world's policeman. > > Ah, but we are. As a nation with the economic, military and technological > capability, it is our responsibility as a nation to do what we can to > preserve peace. (1) Disagree. We are not our brother's keeper. Not as people, not as a nation. Where a preemptive strike against evil serves a clear national interest, maybe. (1) But not here, or in Somalia, or Haiti, or Grenada or even in Iraq... "Honest friendship with all who seek it, entangling alliances with none." Good policy when Jefferson was president, good policy now. 1 - Our entry in WW2 was justified(2). Way late, in fact, Germany almost got the bomb. Should not have stopped at the Rhine, either, Patton was right, we could have saved a lot of treasure if we had put an end to Soviet evil while we had the chance. 2- OTOH, some argue that WW2 would never have happened if we had not entered WW1, since WW1 would have ended in a draw and Germany would never have been raped by Versailles and thus Hitler would never have risen. There were no clear good guys in WW1 by that analysis. But that's alternate history, who knows for sure. -- Larry Pieniazek http://my.voyager.net/lar FDIC Know your Customer is wounded, thanks to you, but not dead... See http://www.defendyourprivacy.com for details For me: No voyager e-mail please. All snail-mail to Ada, please. - Posting Binaries to RTL causes flamage... Don't do it, please. - Stick to the facts when posting about others, please. - This is a family newsgroup, thanks.

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		Re: Genocide and terrorism (Was: SW <-> Russia conspiracy)
(...) That's an interesting stance. All I've learned -- from my faith and otherwise -- indicates that we are our brother's keeper; e.g. we're responsible to do what we can for others. Is your "hands-off" approach a tenet of Libertarianism, or have (...) (25 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: Genocide and terrorism (Was: SW <-> Russia conspiracy)
(...) Ah, but we are. As a nation with the economic, military and technological capability, it is our responsibility as a nation to do what we can to preserve peace. (1) Our actions in Kosovo can only lengthen the conflict and turn other nations (...) (25 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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