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Politics : Support the French! Viva Democracy! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E. T. who wrote (4092)	12/17/2003 4:57:16 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 7834

Food aid is wonderful but it doesn't address the issues raised by chronic human rights violators that you want US forces to dethrone. If food aid was the main concern the US would have been lifting sanctions against Iraq and flooding the place with US wheat. Let's face it, US military intervention is driven by arbitrary reasons, case by case, that may or may not have any merit. Certainly no consistency or coherent policy behind our actions. We intervene in places where the threat is less than others and ignore major threats to millions of innocent people elsewhere. So the defenders fall back on the "at least we did something somewhere" argument and ignore priorities, costs, budgets, political capital squandered, overall force readiness, etc. Then they get mad at anyone doesn't join the cheering section, and shoot the messengers who point out the arbitrariness and inconsistencies. Clearly we will never agree on this - good luck.