<div id="RTEContent">Phil Nisbet <pcnisbet1@hotmail.com> wrote:<br> <br> > First, Why are you so adverse to ‘nation building’? Are you saying to us<br> > that we should never be opposed to the actions of a dictator or what that<br> > totalitarian does within the borders of their country?<br> <br> We should always be opposed to dictators. That is also what I said. I said "Should these people be removed from power too? I think they should."<br> <br> > If you think that we should not ever engage in Nation Building, then I would<br> > have to assume that you opposed boycotts to end Afrikaaner Aparteid, that<br> > you would have opposed the Marshall Plan at the end of WW II and that you<br> > opposed US intervention in Bosnia and Kosovo?<br> <br> I am not opposed to opposition to Apartheid.<br> I would have strongly supported the Marshall Plan. It has helped establish the European Union, the best guard against future military conflicts!
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Europe.<br> I would have prefered UN intervention in the Balkans to NATO intervention.<br> <br> > Some of the countries and people’s you list are repressive, but they are not<br> > engaged in genocide or other acts against humanity.<br> <br> Probably true. Some of them probably also don't have weapons of mass destruction.<br> <br> > On some of the list, however, the President/Generals you list are indeed<br> > involved in actions that violate the Genocide Treaty. So are you suggesting<br> > that we should not act to halt Genocide? Or is it that you do not wish to<br> > ‘nation build’ once a genocidal totalitarian dictator is deposed?<br> <br> We should absolutely act agains genocide. Nation building should be a UN guided effort.<br> <br> > And of course, any situation in which a minority is oppressed or in which a<br> > minority oppresses a majority would not be opposed by you. So the 250,000<br> > murdered East Timorese should ju!
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forgotten? Should Rhodesia and White<br> > South Africa be returned to their previous status quo?<br> <br> Oppressing a minority should absolutely be opposed. We should never forget victims of genocide. Rhodesia and white South Africa should not be returned to their previous status quo.<br> <br> The point of my list of dictators was that the argument for invading Iraq that Sadam was a 'mean guy' doesn't work in light of all the other mean guys that remain undisturbed.<br> </div><p>
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