Isn't it what happened in Afghanistan?The US funded the destabilization and walked away?
-- Jared Earle :: iPhone-at-23x-dot-net http://jearle.eu/ :: http://blog.23x.net On 12 Dec 2008, at 16:58, Chris Gehlker <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Dec 12, 2008, at 8:38 AM, Milo Velimirovic wrote: > >> >> On Dec 12, 2008, at 9:08 AM, Chris Gehlker wrote: >> >>> >>> On Dec 12, 2008, at 6:05 AM, Stefano Mori wrote: >>> >>> > >>>> >>>> Still, old Saddam might have just choked on a date one day and >>>> dropped >>>> dead. Then who'd be to blame? (for the ensuing tribal warfare?) >>> >>> Isn't that essentially what happened in Yugoslavia when Josip Tito >>> died? Didn't the whole Western world feel some responsibility to >>> stop >>> the violence and genocide? >> >> Not really. Josip Broz Titio died in May 1980, fully a decade before >> the 'govno' hit the fan in the Balkans. It took years for Slobodan >> Milošević of Serbia, Franjo Tudjman of Croatiato stir up latent >> nationalism to the point where it turned into warfare. It didn't have >> to happen that way. Once the dissolution of Yugoslavia occurred in >> '91 >> it was obvious to anyone familiar with the region what could, and >> eventually did happen. The tragedy is that it took so long for NATO >> and the UN to do anything beyond hand wringing. > > Point taken. Still there seems to be a continuum running from 'nations > have an obligation to intervene whenever they can prevent violence and > genocide' through 'nations have an obligation to prevent violence and > genocide in their conquests' to 'nations should never intervene in the > internal affairs of other countries'. > > Then there is the Rudy Giuliani view that 'Iraqis have an obligation > to constantly express gratitude to the US for the "gift of freedom". > Any undesirable consequences of said gift are solely the fault of the > Iraqis.' > > > --- > Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely > or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. > > -Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel laureate > (1872-1970) > > > _______________________________________________ > OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] > http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters > List hosted at http://cat5.org/ _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
