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Originally posted by taxwonk
In the first place, we can't afford to be the world's policemen.
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As the haves, I doubt we can afford to NOT be the world's police force.
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In the second place, the fact that we generally choose to act only when it also suits our economic or geopolitical interests belies the notion that what has kept us from acting to stop genocide is people saying we can't shove western values down peoples' throats.
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There are so many places deserving of our attention that we have to prioritize. Why not first work on the ones whose improvement will also benefit us? That's just common sense.
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Call me cynical, but where have we been throughout the last several decades when various tribes in Africa have been engaging in widespread genocide?
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Listening to Clinton tell us how he felt our pain, at least in the big genocide. As for the earlier ones, I think we may have been occupied in Kosovo, or in Kuwait, or in Haiti, or in Panama, or in . . .
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We've been either ignoring it, or sitting on the sidelines generally decrying it. But I haven't seen a Republican groundswell in favor of marching from Khartoum to Pretoria, spreading democracy and peace all along the path.
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See Haiti, Panama, Kuwait, Grenada, Beruit, Liberia, etc. All R-led, IIRC. We don't swell lots of ground when we act, T, we just act. And then listen to the D's decry the interventions. Know what really entertains me? The new D line that Bush didn't put enough troops in Iraq. Wonder why Bush didn't put more troops into the fight? Because the D's would have had an effin' fit if he had.
