Bob, I can't decipher your brief and vague reply. Please explain it. You seem to accuse the object(s) of your disagreement of "moral relativism", but you also seem to engage in it.
-------------------------- The difference is simply morality and common sense. Americans are free, tolerant, humane, and right. Our Islamist enemies are the exact opposite. Moral relativism is highly illogical. Some things are just right, and others plain wrong. I don't let the two confuse me. ------------------------- You have essentially ignored by previous point. How about "unjustly warring with Muslim countries on holy day"? That's one that concerns me. How about you? Does it concern you? I don't care who has advocated forcing liberty at gunpoint, whether it's Rand or Mills or whoever; the more-libertarian country has no natural right to forcefully enter a less-libertarian one and violate its liberties "in the name of liberty". It doesn't matter whether the less-libertarian country is the result of a religious or other type of ideology; neither gives the more libertarian country the right to invade them. Compare American families. Some families operate on a more libertarian basis and others on less. Do the former have rights to force their control on the latter with banners that proclaim "in the name of liberty" as their excuse? Hell no! You criticize the ZAP yet you also criticize unwarranted aggression and the Iraq War. While you may not want to admit that the Iraq War is based on the religious intolerance of America/Christianity or American ideology, you can not deny that any unjust war is a serious affront to the victim-country's liberty. Even if some radical elements within that country were responsible for previously attacking some Americans, under your own criteria the unjustified war on the whole country of Iraq makes America the less-libertarian country and deserving of attack or invasion or preemption by the military of any other country who deems itself to be "more libertarian" or "fighting for liberty" or "liberating people from tyranny". Are not the Iraqi people currently in need of outside help to be freed from the tyranny of American aggression? Even under YOUR own libertarian-foreign-policy (or "law enforcement") rationale, there is no genuine ethic to stop any country from using the Iraq War as justification for bombing the hell out of America "in the name of liberty". --------------------------------
