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To: stockman_scott who wrote (66528)	1/17/2003 11:25:32 AM
From: aladin	Respond to of 281500

S2, Lets say MLK was not shot and in '92 or '02 became President. What would he do or have done on: Rwanda Somalia Bosnia Kosovo Iraq North Korea I think it would be easy to make a case that a humanist such as MLK might well intervene in all of those cases when large numbers of people were at risk. Some of those interventions would involve military action. I can almost hear the speach exorting the country to do its moral duty as leader of the free world. Vietnam is a pretty special case for a lot of reasons and most people today agree that it was a mistake. McArthurs people actually worked with the Vietnamese resistance (later our enemy) during WW2. Mixing nationalist movements with cold war politics etc etc There is a moral case to be made for all of the listed interventions (as opposed to the messy cold-war era of proxy wars). John