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To: Paul Merriwether who wrote (2008)	4/6/1999 12:11:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

That is what I mean. I would have been outraged, had I been born, I would have suggested economic blockades etc etc- but military intervention NO. PolPot killed an awful lot of people - were you whining about him? Should we have intervened there?

To: Paul Merriwether who wrote (2008)	4/6/1999 12:27:00 PM
From: Stormweaver	Respond to of 17770

>>You mean that you were not(or would not have been) outraged as long >>as Hitler was ethnically cleansing Jews, Gypsies and Catholics >>(INSIDE THE BORDERS of Germany!) and did not encroach on Czech etc. We have to remember that to some degree what a sovereign nation does internally is it's own business. When we start intervening in internal strifes we are forcing our view of the situation (our law) on that nation. This has potentially huge repercussions as we can have backlash from other nations that see our intervention as illegal; as is the case with Russia. Our involvement in Kosovo has untold potential consequences from increased terrorist action against the U.S. to the extreme of a potential world war.

To: Paul Merriwether who wrote (2008)	4/6/1999 12:28:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 17770

You mean that you were not(or would not have been) outraged as long as Hitler was ethnically cleansing Jews, Gypsies and Catholics(INSIDE THE BORDERS of Germany!) and did not encroach on Czech etc. Outraged, of course. Willing to bring the extremes of political and economic pressure to bear, yes. Willing to bomb Berlin, no. We Americans, as prisoners of our history, have a penchant for feeling that picking up a gun and shooting somebody is a natural way to solve social problems. We have fewer guns per per capita than many other countries, but one of the highest murder rates in the world. We arm all our police and many private security guards. We have the largest Presidential security force in the world. (Castro used to, and as far as I know still does, walk around Havana with NO security. Just watch Bill Clinton stroll around downtown Washington with no security.) Guns are NOT the best answer to most problems. That's a lesson we still haven't learned. In that, we are morally way behind most of the rest of the world.