At 01:25 PM 5/25/01 +0200 J. van Baardwijk wrote:
>You're absolutely right about that; yet when I read your post, it seems to
>me like you believe that the West had that moral right, but the East didn't
>have that right. The East believed the West's intentions to be aggresive.
>Did they have less of a moral right to defend themselves?
Do you believe that openly declaring that you intend to take by force every
other country in the world counts as self-defence? Does actively
attempting to take over every country that you can (cf. Poland,
Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Afghanistan,
Angola, Nicaragua, El Salvador, etc.) count as self-defence also?
Geesh, Jeroen, you sound like Weyoun defending the Dominion.
JDG
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