10-07-2004, 02:26 PM
mongooze Wrote:What if the argument was "remove a dictator if it seems practical to do so"?Practical?? You're kidding, right? Practical is a word that should be used to describe minivans, not nation building. Is 1000 lives and $100 billion+++ "practical"? The whole "creating democracy where it didn't previously exist" thing isn't ever going to be "practical".
mongooze Wrote:Who would be against removing dictators - that's a good thing right? But who decides what a dictator looks like, or what a dictatorship (or oppressive regime) looks like? Or if it's a threat to a single country or a group of countries or the world?Right, that's my point
If our foreign policy is "get rid of dictators and free oppressed people" instead of "squish anyone who poses a serious tactical threat to us" there would be no end to the work that would have to be done.john
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