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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (6618)12/12/2005 10:29:24 AM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (2) of 542682
 
Now I understand why there should be a prohibition against killing people even for the best of reasons.

I understand the sentiments. I've just never been a pacifist and lately have come to the conclusion that there are circumstances under which state sponsored violence is acceptable. The principle one is that it be couched within a program which leads to decreased violence and that it take into account the full political, social and cultural context of the violence it seeks to control.

Thus, for me the problem with Bush's policies is not the use of the military but (a) it was used against the wrong target (Iraq rather than Al Qaeda), (b) it was not used in concert with a well conceived plan of nation building, and (c) it ignored the historic ethnic makeup of the colonially created country "Iraq".
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