[extropy-chat] Re: Iraq and legality again

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Dirk Bruere <dirk at neopax.com> wrote:

> Mike Lorrey wrote:
> >
> >The same was done by Wilson to get us into WWI, and we were
> manipulated
> >into the Spanish American war by Hearst, Truman got us into the
> Korean
> >War because he emaciated our military after WWII, which encouraged
> >Stalin and Kim to invade South Korea, while Johnson engineered the
> >Tonkin Gulf incident.
> >
> >What is more important than who manipulated or lied to get us into a
> >war, is whether more good came out of the war than not. Did the
> human
> >condition improve in any way? The march of democracy and individual
> >liberties around the planet in the 20th century is testament that
> for
> >the most part, the human condition did improve, and often required
> >combat to punctuate the equilibrium of tyranny previously
> established.
> >It has cost us the mortgaging of America and the fractional slavery
> of
> >every citizen to the government. Whether that sacrifice is truly
> >considered by those who benefitted from the sacrifice more is worthy
> of
> >debate, but neither should the results be denied.
> >
> >  
> >
> I disagree.
> A very good argument could be made that the US intervention in WW1 
> created the conditions for most of the misery of the last century. It
> would probably have been better for the European powers to fight to 
> exhaustion and settle by mutual negotiation.
> 

Such a scenario would have resulted in europe-wide communist revolution
in the aftermath of popular disgust with existing governments, and
global war between Eurasia and the US by 1940, with the communists
controlling atomic technology.

Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com

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