<And also an excuse for lack of ethical responsibilty.>
There is something ludicrous, about this sudden conversion to humanitarianism.
Not so long ago, Argentinian soldiers were rounding up dissidents, anybody who criticized them for any reason. They would tie them up, drug them, put them on planes, fly over the ocean, open the door, and push them out. These were not a few isolated cases. It was a systematic campaign, carried out on a massive scale, over many years. Thousands of Disappeared. And not just in Argentina, but in a long list of nations.
Consistently, the U.S. armed, supported, funded, trained these militaries. Again, this was not a few isolated examples. It was a pattern. This support happened whether Democrats or Republicans were in charge in Washington. But it was the conservative Republicans who most consistently supported these campaigns to Disappear dissidents. In many cases, it is the exact same individuals who are now running the Bush Administration.
If you dispute any of the facts above, I can post a huge mass of factual evidence, with links, to support it. Better yet, just read "Nunca Mas", the report of the Argentine government commission on the Disappeared.
This "humanitarian" line, is just an attempt, after the fact, to construct a plausible fall-back position, now that the principle reason for the war has been discredited. You can't hide the Wolfowitz under a sheep's pelt. |
