From: Joe Dees (hidden@lucifer.com)
Date: Thu May 20 2004 - 23:35:37 MDT
Then, according to your logic, if Germany had not attacked other nations, it would've been hunky dory to allow Adolph Hitler to gas the Jews? Okay to allow Milosevic, Karadzic and Mladic to massacre the Bosnians and the Kosovars? Great to let the muslims ethnicly cleanse the Christians from East Timor? And it was fine to permit the Hutus in Rwanda and Burundi to slaughter the Tutsis and peachy keen to sit back and watch Pol Pot in Cambodia kill two million of his own people?
Sorry, but I must strenuously disagree, on himanitarian grounds.
Murdered people matter. to them, to their families and friends, and to the people who either act to stop such slaughter or whose inaction enables and facilitates it.
When a country is hijacked by a murderous totalitarian despot, the rest of the civilized world has a humanitarian duty to end that despot's slaughter of the citizens under his control, and he should not be able to hide behind national sovereignty and noninterference in his country's internal affairs while he pursues his dirty filthy wetwork.
And what Rumsfeld and Bush said was not that the Iraqi WMD threat was imminent at that precise time; what was said is that we dare not wait again until we are certain that such a threat is imminent, because a mistaken estimation can lead to threats developing to the point of mass slaughter before we take any action at all; you see, we tried that failed theory before, with disastrous results, in New York City, and may end up paying most catastrophically for not preventing such a threat to develop in a now-nuclear North Korea.
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