juliaoceania
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Joined: 4/19/2006 From: Somewhere Over the Rainbow Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania You both claim I am ignorant of some fact or other that makes my opinions or assessments wrong. Where did I make such a claim, Julia? I have expressed my opinion, and sought to clarify my understanding of yours. I have pointed out that your question about direct responsibilty for hypothetical future violent attacks is irrelevant, because the final responsibility to keep the hypothetical treaty lies with the government. Nope. Didn't claim you were ignorant anywhere in there. I thought this comment Was agreeing with Will, in the context of the thread. quote:
(Great. Now you get my post right on the first read... ) I was asking you to clarify because I do not think you go to war because private citizens of a country decide to go to the country next door and cause trouble. It is irrational to approach any sort of international relationship this way. For example, we have a war on drugs, should we invade Mexico because they have citizens coming here and aiding in the drug epidemic? Until peace has been established for at least a few decades there will be renegades who try to instigate conflict. That would be giving entirely too much power to these little pittling factions who will never be satisfied with any treaty. I do not agree with collective punishments, either, mind you. I think they are immoral, and they go against my sense of right and wrong as an American. We punish wrong doers in this country, not their families. There are situations that would cause me to support Israel... although that does not necessarily translate into military support. There are many countries that may have my moral support, but it is not in the interests of the United States to give military support to every country we know has valid grievances.
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