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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: neolib who wrote (184624)4/5/2006 11:52:39 AM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Yipes! I agree with every comment you made in that post. Please notice there was no encouragement to use the military to accomplish change in it.

LOL!!

Btw, please don't construe that I believe military action is the end-all, be-all, for advancing the cause of democratic reform in the world.

I firmly believe diplomatic and economic efforts should be first. However, those efforts MUST BE BACKED BY CREDIBLE MILITARY FORCE when intransigent regimes insist on violating regional or global stability.

This is why I firmly believed the US was justified in bringing down Iraq (as I've oft stated in previous posts). We had the moral and legal authority of UNSC 1441, obtained via multi-lateral discussion and authority via the UNSC.

I do not advocate pre-emptive wars against other states until international legal and economic sanctions have run their course to no major effect.

And when it's painfully obvious that these paths are not generating the prescribed change of behavior (as deemed necessary by the UNSC), then military force is often the last resort..

But once in that situation, we should not hesitate to exercise it. To do so only reveals us as a paper tiger and unworthy of the lofty values we pretend to advance.

Hawk
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