You seem to think that it is OK for tyrants to
have the right to commit atrocities against their own people, as long as it was within the
borders of their country.
Not exactly. But is IS the right and duty of the people in the country to defend themselves, to throw off despotic leaders (as the KLA was doing before we jumped in and got SMs troops so riled up that they started whupping the KLA's butt), or if they prefer, to accept what is happening in their country.
The world is not always a nice place. Not there, not here. (You doubt that, spend a month on the streets downtown of any major U.S. city, another month in any State prison, and a month as a black teen male living in a housing project, and then tell me that the U.S. is perfect.)
The point isn't that SM is nice. He isn't. We know that.
The point is, whose job is it to stop him? Whose job was it to stop Pol Pot (who got his real support from the Khymer Rouge when we bombed Cambodia and got them all riled up), whose job is it to stop the Taliban (after we armed them and helped them learn to fight Russian and now that they turn their weapons on their own people, where are we?), whose job is it to feed the people in Somalia (after making a mess of it there, we got out; but since you don't see any pictures of starting Somalian children on the TV any more, I guess they don't count), . . . I could go on and on, unfortunately.
We are far from without sin. It's time we quit throwing stones (and hundreds of millions of dollars) at others and spent all that time and energy curing our own problems.
How many starving American children would the cost of that one F-117 have fed? |
