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To: bentway who wrote (285298)	4/24/2006 2:00:11 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573088

I don't agree. I've got some scummy neighbors, I could kill them, but it wouldn't make it right. In this case it depends on what the scummy neighbors are doing to their "subjects", which in the analogy would be their wife, nanny and kids. If the pop abuses the kids and nanny daily, killing the pop may "make it right". Now, if they actually committed some crimes, and I took them to court (the UN), and they were found guilty and a verdict was rendered that required I participate - then I would agree. I'd be acting as a person in a responsible community of people. Problem is that what constitutes a crime is set within a nation, so cross nation declaration of what is a crime is not really clear. Say the neighbor pop kills the nanny for his own pleasure. In his house he declares that that wasn't a crime (he sets law in his house). In your "responsibile community of people" there's no crime, so what's your responsible solution? The nation example is Poppy in the Gulf war - he did it the RIGHT way. The unilateral way is the WRONG way. The problem is that there are some regimes that (in my mind) are clearly wrong and I listed Burma, North Korea and Sudan as examples. Your "unilateral approach" is not solving these present day, not even close. The Chinese weigh genocide in Darfur against their nation's need for Sudan's oil, and decide that their need for oil trumps the killing and displacement of hundreds of thousands of Sudanese peasants. I think the US should remove the regime in Darfur regardless of the Chinese' desire for Darfur's oil.