You mean like in Ireland where the Catholics and Protestants did that to each other? How is that possible in your claim that Islamism is unique and Christianity is uniquely "safe"?
----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Giramma To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 1:31 AM Subject: Re: Using force to improve the utilization of resources Re: [Libertarian] Stop the War FOR Terror "...as long as the outcome intends to improve the situation for liberty." In any case, I'm talking about nations, not neighbors. Do you really "think" the accidental bombing of a wedding is the same as the intentional and repeated attacks on office buildings, restaurants, discos, civilian airplanes, and other places where ordinary people congregate? From: Steve Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 4:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Using force to improve the utilization of resources Re: [Libertarian] Stop the War FOR Terror Bob Giramma wrote: > I tend to favor Ayn Rand's philosophy that free > nations are morally justified in discretionary use of military action > against non-free nations, as long as the outcome intends to improve the > situation for liberty. So if my neighbor is not using his resources in a way that I think best, it's ok for me to use force to take those resources and put them to best use? > There is undoubtedly far greater freedom in > Afghanistan and Iraq today than prior to US military intervention. Just don't have a traditional wedding or funeral if the US is flying overhead. -- Steve - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Take World's Smallest Political Quiz at http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz.html "If a thousand old beliefs were ruined on our march to truth we must still march on." --Stopford Brooke [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Click to get free information on a Bahamas vacation. http://ads.lavabit.com/fc/Ioyw6kdcmPE5tD9uUhHm4YXSH3QyPPeLO8bXqZywCZ293hpGfQO5ae/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
