From: Blunderov (squooker@mweb.co.za)
Date: Thu Mar 04 2004 - 15:16:57 MST
Jonathan Davis
Sent: 04 March 2004 01:40 PM
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I think foreign policy of virtually every state is rightly about
self-interest (yes, even Sweden and Switzerland).
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[Blunderov]
Yes, but to what extent is it permissible to pursue self interest?
Someone, it may have been Churchill, once remarked that 'War is foreign
policy by other means'.
If war is in the interest of a particular state is it ok to just go for
it irrespective of the circumstances?
The Limbic whom I know and respect is not, as far as I know, a proponent
of 'might is right'. I feel reasonably certain that we can agree that
war is an order of magnitude different to plain old foreign policy and
that Churchill (if it was he) was overstating the case.
So, perhaps persons who criticize a pragmatic foreign policy and who
simultaneously criticize a pragmatic war are not being inconsistent;
they are talking about two different things. The fact that both
decisions are 'pragmatic' does not necessarily make them equally
virtuous surely?
Best regards.
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