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Monday, July 21, 2003
posted by gbarto at 2:03 AM:
Damn. Den Beste says it a hell of a lot better than I've managed to:We are not, however, doing this out of altruism. We are not trying to give them a liberalized western democracy because we're evangelistic liberal democrats (with both "liberal" and "democrat" taking historical meanings). We are bringing reform to Iraq out of narrow self interest. We have to foster reform in the Arab/Muslim world because it's the only real way in the long run to make them stop trying to kill us.Btw, a few days ago, Den Beste noted the latest outrage from Pat Robertson, in which he suggested that three Supreme Court Justices ought be encouraged by God to retire due to health problems. While we would not be so churlish as to hope that God convinces Robertson to retire due to health problems one way or another, we don't feel any particular fondness to the man. Says Den Beste, Robertson has of late only been further marginalizing himself, and thank God for that. But it takes two to marginalize. While Robertson has been making an ass of himself, it is to their credit that conservatives and Republicans have accordingly either ignored or denounced his idiocies. Wonders Den Beste, will the left marginalize their idiots, nameth Nader and Noam? Probably not, says the Oracle of San Diego, and so they'll marginalize themselves.
There is thus no inconsistency with the fact that we fought a war to free Iraq's people from Saddam's cruelty while simultaneously not seeming willing to do the same for North Korea, whose people are probably suffering even more badly. At the moment, it doesn't appear to be in our narrow self interest to do that for the people of NK.
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