On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 08:54:37 -0500 Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 05 March 2007 02:22, "Roberto C. Sanchez" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > See, and I have been losing respect for the rest of world for > > interfering too much in people's daily lives and sitting idly by > > (or providing only token participation) while the US protects them > > and renders massive aid to the victims of natural disaster. > > The US doesn't protect anyone. If the US were actually interested in > defense, rather than empire, the military bases overseas would be > closed, rather than manned in 170 countries, of which, what, 2 > are "at war" with the US? "The US doesn't protect anyone" ? I suppose you mean that its motive is not primarily defensive, but denying that they are actually protecting any other countries is ludicrous. [snip] > If you want to have a positive effect, the first thing to do is get > government out of the way. Might does not make right. The first proposition in this paragraph does not in any way follow from the second; just because might doesn't make right, it doesn't follow that government can't have a positive effect (although I concede to you libertarians that its ability to do so is often overestimated). Perhaps you mean to say that "might cannot make right", but that isn't the common aphorism, which means merely that might isn't a sufficient condition (or cause) for being right. Celejar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]