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To: Neocon who wrote (2760)	5/11/1999 10:33:00 PM
From: Daniel W. Koehler	Read Replies (4) of 13060

Neocon <<Dave, I am an internationalist, not an isolationist, and therefore I find our alliance system justified, and the use of force at times justified>> You seem to take US internationalist policy as axiomatic. What are then the guidelines for us intervening in foreign conflicts? Why is NATO acting preemptively instead of defensively? Why is the "humanitarian intervention" rationale apropos in Kosovo but not in Rwanda? How is it that during the first 150 years of our Republic we were economic free traders but military noninterventionists? Seemed to work pretty well according to LP historian Ralph Raico. Oh, I guess we probably should have intervened in the Franco-Prussian War based on our historic fealty with France. Why are you an internationalist? Do you feel we should give more government know-it-all busybodies a forum to meddle in other countries' affairs? I would submit that the LP principle of never using force unless theatened directly would be more conservative approach to this problem. Ciao, Daniel

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