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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Noel de Leon who wrote (130669)4/30/2004 4:38:54 PM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
You potted history is false, as is your allegation that military power is to be used to democatize the world. (There was never a Christian doctrine permitting forced conversion, any such attempts were ad hoc, and the Crusades were meant to come to the aid of the Byzantine Empire and protect the Holy Places, for example, not to convert Muslims). No one is interested in invading regimes that do not threaten their neighbors or constitute a humanitarian threat to elements of their own populations. They may not be democratic, but we will only seek cultural influence, as long as they are not intolerable. There is not even a dictum that bids us intervene everywhere that it might be justified, without regard to other factors. Iraq is a fairly unique case, and tied up in the general mess of the Middle East and the rise of terrorism...........
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