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To: Sig who wrote (89173)	4/2/2003 1:13:32 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Another point is that populations dont go to war, leaders decide who goes to war. Leaders obviously do get to decide but in democracies they best not decide to go to war without large scale popular support. Else the old proverb will apply: no one shows up. And, to call a population to war, there is no other means than moral ones. Rights of self defense are moral arguments, if that's where you wish to take this discussion. If you notice the arguments surrounding those rights, they are all about the conditions under which one is actually in a condition meriting self defense and how much action is appropriate (usual notions are that it should be commensurate with the level of threat, etc.) We could go on but I sense you don't really wish to do so. If so, let me know.