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Originally posted by Mike AI@Sep 9 2004, 12:18 PM
Isolationism does not work in the modern world.
Not with weapons that can be easily trainsported by suitcase that could wipe out entire cities.
Not with balistic missles that can be launched from the middle east, or Korea and wipe out entire cities.
The US should not get involved with every ethnic or civil war, but a case can be drawn that what is happening in Suden is part of the Islamacists movement.
Grimm I am dissappointed in you. Where is your liberal compassion? is it because they are not white or speak english that its ok these people are slaughtered by islamicists?
As a Jew, can you not reflect upon the hollocost and see what evil human beings are capable of?
What amazes me about liberals is they refuse to raise a hand against those who slaughter millions of peple, but GOD HELP YOU IF YOU WANT TO CUT A REDWOOD tree down!!! They will go to the ends of the earth to save teh spotted owl.
Who cares about Sudanese Christians being slaughtered?? Or ethnic cleansing in the baltics?
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Mikey, I think you're being a little disingenuous here.
I don't recall hearing any liberal opposition to possible involvement in ending the genocide in Sudan. Upon what do you base your assumption/conclusion that there is any? When did ethnic cleansing in the Balkans become a concern of the right? Remember the screeching from the right over that, and over George I's foray into Somalia?
Liberals have long held that the standards for intervention should include humanitarian concerns; both on an compassionate and on a practical level. Small ethnic conflicts have a tendency to spread, you know.
Second ... me wonders exactly how big a factor the fact that those committing the genocide are hiding behind Islam plays in your thinking that we should get involved. Me suspects that if it were Christians slaughtering Moslems you would be far less interested.
You wouldn't, by any chance, be re-thinking your opinion of Slobodan Milosevic, would you?