Choosing wars
What should be the standards for U.S. intervention in foreign affairs? Discuss round two of this week's Dust-Up.
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Sorry, re earlier posting: that was to be...8-12 WEEKS! Yes WEEKS!!!, of PAID holidays for Europeans. Now, if you're NOT comatose, would you prefer 8-12 weeks paid holiday a year, or, to be TERRIFIED that if you take 1 week, the sob at the top, will FIRE your arse? Yes, the Europeans ARE far wiser!!! (In case you couldn't figure THAT out for yourself!)
robert NO Longer in LA @ 7:42 PM PST, Mar 5, 2008
Liam49 (5:37am PST March5th) is sooooo right! We just love being big and important...if only in our stupid delusions! Sending our children to die, or get maimed, so Citibank, Exxon,Boeing and all, can sell a few more goodies, while our country decays before our eyes. Every danged thing Bush/Cheney/NeoCons and the Dems TOO, babbles on about, has 1 oz of truth, wrapped in a metric ton of bull droppings, which you numb nuts gobble up, like Halloween candy. Isn't war wonderful? Reduced unemployment, boost profits and lowers taxes for Wall Street.
robert NO Longer in LA @ 6:08 PM PST, Mar 5, 2008
While I am clear that the US does have some level of interest in what happens most anywhere in the world, I contend that we seriously err if we assume that we must take part in solving every problem that may arise. American-instigated regime change provides the perfect example of this error. Even if Saddam Hussein had had WMD, we would have been wrong to attack him. But attack we did and now Iraq is our 'tar baby' and we face a Hobson's Choice for extricating ourselves. My vote in the upcoming presidential election will be for the person who convinces me that our guys will begin to come home by the day after Inauguration Day.
Doug4368 @ 1:03 PM PST, Mar 5, 2008
When governments fail to provide security for their citizens they fail. Globilization and our three trillion dollar war endangers our governments ability to take care of its own. The next political call for change may come from one that promises our ever growing peon class more, just more not just change. Bring the troopsw home and spend the effort to restore some equity in the American society.
c. perrry Florida @ 7:09 AM PST, Mar 5, 2008
Problem with you Americans you dont get out often enough. I believe. It should be mandatory for all your citizens to take a trip to say Denmark, Sweden , Norway and Finland. And I am not from any of these countries. What you will see is beautiful countries with superb educational, medical, and other facilities all paid for by the state. Beautiful houses almost full employment and no poverty at all. Not the millions of appalling slums and trailer tents that you see in America. You see these countries are not interested in invading other countries, or having huge military forces occupying over 700 bases worldwide.
liam49 @ 5:37 AM PST, Mar 5, 2008
Interventionism came from the Liberals. It is new for the Republicans. It is not conservative.
john @ 11:47 PM PST, Mar 4, 2008
We need to protect ourselves against imminent threats but the best way to promote our values around the world is by example, not by force. Show the world that a society based on freedom, tolerance and rule of law works pretty well most of the time. Naive? China has gone from communism to capitalism and ironically even Vietnam is following suit. Nike factories in Hanoi? Ho Chi Minh is spinning in his grave.
HB Freddie @ 10:33 PM PST, Mar 4, 2008
Interventionism is not the cancer. Conservatism is.
Muzzy @ 10:00 PM PST, Mar 4, 2008
it is interesting that Continetti uses the iranian revolution as an example of what happens when the US pulls back and does not intervene. Does he not know that one of the reasons the iranian revolution was able to succeed was the blatant intervention by the CIA in Iran in 1954 to overthrow a Democratic government that, sadly, was not pro-US in its oil policies?
charles trentelman @ 8:27 PM PST, Mar 4, 2008
When has a 'war of pacification' ever worked for America? That's the kind of war where we depose a foreign government, then try to 'pacify' the locals by installing a government that is sympathetic to our goals. Think of Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Whenever we get mixed up in one of these idiotic conflicts, we end up in someone else's civil war, which we can't possibly win. We left Vietnam in embarrasment, and we will leave Iraq and Afghanistan the same way.
David @ 5:39 PM PST, Mar 4, 2008
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