Reply #32: No, just acknowledging reality

[jpgray]

If we could be trusted to follow an altruistic foreign policy in this country, we should accept the "genocide" rationale. But we can't, so we shouldn't accept the "genocide" rationale, because we will end up causing more pain and death than we are likely to prevent. Clinton and Bush both say we can't permit genocide to occur, yet both ignored the genocides in Africa. Just saying we're for something doesn't make it true, and in general it is a smokescreen to spend defense money and steal natural resources.

If we demonstrably aren't interested in preventing genocides, using that as a rationale is highly suspect. If we were actually backing that up, it would be a different story, but that's a fairy tale, not the reality.