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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Neocon who wrote (131979)5/7/2004 12:15:41 PM
From: Jacob Snyder  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
<a five year old view of sovereignty might consider that I was violating the principle>

Yes. The 5-year-old has heard his mother tell him:

Don't go into your brother's room, take his stuff and break it.
Don't grab your brother's toy, and don't hit him when he tries to take it back.
Even if your brother isn't using his toys the way you want him to, you still can't steal them or hit him. They are his toys.

So the child understands the principle of respecting other nation's national sovereignty. And the child doesn't understand about making exceptions. When a child sees a rule being broken, he thinks, "This is wrong." You, however, being a clever adult, have a complicated set of rationalizations, to explain the long list of exceptions you make to the Good Rules.

And the end result of making all those exceptions, is West Virginia trailer trash sexually torturing foreigners. You can know the tree by its fruit.
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