At 04:29 PM 2/6/2003 -0600 Marvin Long, Jr. wrote:
>I'm mocking it because
No, your sig file provides all the evidence anyone needs of why you are
mocking it.
> Preemptive conquest and
>nation-building looks a lot like colonialism to a lot of people,
>especially the conquered.
What evidence do you have of this? Does your statement here match what
we know about the reactions of the people of Afghanistan or Serbia, to name
the two most recent regimes changed by the US?
> Even without colonies, a stated belief that it
>is the God-appointed destiny of the US to, over time, overthrow by various
>means the nasty regimes of the world smacks of the worst kind of hubris
>and is not calculated to gain allies for a project that must require
>long-term allies. Moreover, I believe it is a lie, or at best a rash
>exaggeration.
Out of curiosity, if you see a poor man being beated on the street by a
hoodlum to steal his wallet, what would you do? Let's say that you have
a baseball bat, and the hoodlum does not have a weapon. Would you feel
any moral obligation to assist the poor man whom you don't know?
I know that I feel this moral obligation..... and it seems that Bush does
too. Just look at the attention he devoted to AIDS in Africa against all
odds in his State of the Union.
JDG
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it is God's gift to humanity." - George W. Bush 1/29/03
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