Bob, So we don't really need to be concerned about committing mass human-rights violations because there might be fringe benefits; and because determining justice is a job for future generations anyway? Gee, how very convenient for our consciences!
Seriously, that is a preposterous and shameful position for anyone, let alone a libertarian. If you don't judge such hugely significant things "in real time", you are throwing ethics / justice / principle out the door. Under such lunacy, absolutely any kind of aggression could be justified on the "basis" of the possibility of accidental/unexpected future benefits. And the Holocaust could be justified on the basis that we gained some medical knowledge from the "doctors of death" who performed cruel human experiments. Gosh, "who would have thought?" The mentality of your post sounds similar to what Stalin projected when he said: "A single death is a tragedy, are million deaths is a statistic." ------------------------------- Bob Giramma wrote: History will judge the Iraq War based on how things stabilize (or not) in the decades to come. I don't believe in judging a war, presidency, or major policy change in real-time. However, there is a marked turn of sentiment among ordinary Muslims away from making excuses for Islamist terrorism, according to several recent polls compared with similar polls of several years ago. It was apparently OK when terrorists were murdering Jews and other infidels, but they seem to be changing their minds now that most Islamist terrorism victims are Muslim. Who would have thought?
