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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (7624)	8/3/2004 3:13:29 PM
From: Rock_nj	Respond to of 20039

What about situations like the Sudan? We just stand by while people are slaughtered? We've done it plenty of times in the past. Why didn't some other power try to stop the U.S. slaughter in Viet Nam and surrounding countries in the 1960s and 1970s? How many did we wind up killing? 3,000,000+ I'm all for humanitarian interventions. But, the sad fact is we could spend our whole time and energy doing such things, and they'll still occur. We can't be the world's policemen. Also, there's plenty of humanitarian intervention that could be done at home in America. We've got plenty of problems to deal with. We've got gangs, crime and violence on a scale that's way beyond what other 1st world countries experience. We also have social problems from poverty to drug addiction at rates far higher than other industrialized countries. Humanitarianism should begin at home.

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (7624)	8/3/2004 3:44:10 PM
From: LPS5	Respond to of 20039

What about situations like the Sudan? We just stand by while people are slaughtered? I would say that what is going on in Sudan is unfortunate, terrible, and utterly horrifying. That is the extent to which I would intervene in that 'situation.' The UN has proven itself ineffective. Agreed. I would also pull the U.S. out of the U.N. immediately. LPS5