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In reply to the discussion: Repost as OP: All this talk of "right to retaliate" and "insurgents" is just legalistic twaddle [View all]ConservativeDemocrat
(2,720 posts)If you want to disagree with me on purely moral terms, I have no problem with that. In truth, it would be a happier world where we didn't have any war, including this low-intensity warfare between these Islamic knuckle-draggers who want to keep women in their "place" by bombing civilians, and our deliberate, individual, targeting of them by drones.
All I ask is that you check your facts before you write a screed.
We are winning the war on war (http://www.amazon.com/Winning-War-Decline-Conflict-Worldwide/dp/0452298598). And yes, the U.S. usually is relegated in this to being the "bad cop" to the UN's "good cop". But don't you ever forget that one of President Clinton's greatest regrets is that he didn't intervene in Rwanda earlier. And people the world over were angry at us for our lack of timely intervention.
I'd love for us to not have to be the world's policeman. Among other things, it's damned expensive. But the unfortunate truth is that the world needs a policeman. And the majority of not only Americans, but liberal Democrats, recognize this.
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