>From the archives.....
At 12:12 PM 9/23/2002 -0700 Matt Grimaldi wrote:
>By "intervene," do you mean "protect those people who
>are being attacked" or "topple the existing regime
>and install one that does things your way"? I would
>support possbily sending troops to defend their villages
>and/or find places for them as refugees if it's too
>dangerous for them to stay. I would support sanctions
>and military actions designed to get the existing regime
>to behave properly. But I would not support imposing
>a regime upon the country. Let the locals do that if
>they're willing, it is their country, after all.
Yes, but doesn't this risk creating a Vietnam-style quagmire?
i.e. if your only intervention is defensive, and you cannot ever actually
defeat the evil regime you are intervening against, then aren't you reduced
to just simply placing US troops in harms way ad infinitum?
JDG
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