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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Ilaine who wrote (56805)10/2/1999 11:39:00 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (4) of 108807
 
Pricks do tend to beget pricks.

I think the salient point was the one that X was making - that the US does not have an inalienable right to declare proxy war on a country simply because we don't like their form of government. There are obviously exceptions: if there is significant intervention by an outside power, if there is a real and immediate threat to American or regional security, or if massive human rights violations are taking place. But even in these cases intervention should be open and not covert (though US covert operations don't generally stay covert for very long) and not, unless in truly desperate straits, unilateral.

I was not at all surprised that jla dove into insult mode rather than addressing the point.

I just picked up a copy of Jeane Kirkpatrick's book on the subject; you'll probably know when I'm reading it. I'll be in a foul mood for a few days.
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