At 05:37 PM 4/19/2005 -0700, Deborah Harrell wrote: >>Killing and dying is too important to do it >> because it makes people feel good. If you can do >> good >> in the world, you should. But it's not the first or >> most important thing that a state does in foreign >> policy. > >Agreed, but if one is going to claim _moral_ >justification in pursuing war, one had better ensure >that citizens and foreign states will agree with one's >assertions. Otherwise, they will eventually discover >that such claims were, at best, misreprentation of the >actual situation. And that destroys the credibility >of that government.
As others have pointed out, there is no reason why any of the above should be true. For example, Deborah, you have suggested that the US should be doing more in Sudan. The rest of the world believes that the US should *not* intervene militarily to protect the Darfuris. If Bush were to advocate such an intervention, would the morality of this intervention be based upon the opinion of the rest of the world? JDG _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
