Saturday, April 17, 2004

The problem with Chomsky & company: You can't rail for years about how the US did nothing to stop the massacres in East Timor in 70's; about how the US did nothing to stop the Rwandan genocide; and then break out in hives when the US does invade a brutal dictatroship with the aim of establishing a democracy.

Either you oppose war as a method to promote democracy and end ethnic cleansing -- which puts you in the position to oppose US actions in Kosovo and Iraq -- but also puts you in no position to complain about East Timor or Rwanda -- or you support war as a legitemate means of achieving humanitarian ends -- which allows you to rail about Rwanda and East Timor -- but puts you in the logical position of supporting US actions in Kosovo and Iraq (or, at least, supporting the humanitarian justification for Iraq Bush latched on when WMDs were not found).

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