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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (5832)	2/14/2001 3:59:12 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Acting in self defense has nothing to do with moral code. That's hard wired in us, IMO. Okay. If it affects us, that's one thing. But in the case of Libya, we brought the problems on ourselves by our intervention in the Middle East. That wasn't self defense, though it was to some degree self-interest (cheap oil). But if we had let Iraq go ahead and absorb Kuwait, we could have bought oil just as cheaply from Iraq. It wasn't our self defense interests that made us intervene there. It was our imposition of our moral code. Iraq would pose no threat to us if we posed no threat to them -- does Belize feel threatened by Iraq? I doubt it. Self defense is one thing. But lots of this goes far beyond that.