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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (222786)3/8/2005 4:15:44 AM
From: Elroy  Read Replies (3) of 1577029
 
There comes a point where the failure of the sovereign nation's government to rule in the best interests of its people outweighs the principle of national sovereignity. At least in my mind....

See this is the problem with your POV. In the US, even the bad guys are subject to due process. Due process becomes hard to find during an invasion

Is your point here that the US is incapable of determining that a sovereign nation's government is consistantly worsening the lives of its citizens? It seems fairly OBVIOUS that the leadership of North Korea and leadership of Iraq have been bad for those country's civilian populations for at least 20 years. What due process do you want to decide to remove them?

I don't get your point. If the government of Zimbabwe starves 10% of its population to death every year for 10 years, and the governmnet of Zimbabwe refuses outside pressure to reform for ten years, what due process do you want before outside countries forcibly remove that government?
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