What's wierd is, if this took place on our soil, with cops and a road block, I'd be completely on the side of the cops. I admit to a fuzzy distinction here - and one that is massively triggered by the physical resemblance.
But there...
Jeff's point about the mass graves is one I turn over in my mind again and again, trying to find an answer for.
See my comment to him. The US's intervention to stop massive human rights violations has always been spotty, conditional, and capricious (sp?) We intervene in Iraq, which not too coincidentally has a resource we want and a dictator with bad personal history with our current ruler (nevermind all the deals other members of the administration have made with him over time). But we do not intervene in the Sudan, or the Ukraine, or China...
Sometimes you do have to go to war. I had no problem with the strikes on Afghanistan and the attacks on Al Queada. But I have many problems with this mess in Iraq. Much like people quoting Leviticus to prove the Bible is anti-homosexual while dodging all the other rules they don't follow, we're pointing to Saddam's mass graves while ignoring Osama's continued freedom and the massacres in Africa, human rights violations in Saudi, etc., etc., etc.
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Date: 2005-01-25 02:37 am (UTC)But there...
Jeff's point about the mass graves is one I turn over in my mind again and again, trying to find an answer for.
See my comment to him. The US's intervention to stop massive human rights violations has always been spotty, conditional, and capricious (sp?) We intervene in Iraq, which not too coincidentally has a resource we want and a dictator with bad personal history with our current ruler (nevermind all the deals other members of the administration have made with him over time). But we do not intervene in the Sudan, or the Ukraine, or China...
Sometimes you do have to go to war. I had no problem with the strikes on Afghanistan and the attacks on Al Queada. But I have many problems with this mess in Iraq. Much like people quoting Leviticus to prove the Bible is anti-homosexual while dodging all the other rules they don't follow, we're pointing to Saddam's mass graves while ignoring Osama's continued freedom and the massacres in Africa, human rights violations in Saudi, etc., etc., etc.