You do it right here: In relation to the goals of economic reform, mitigation of ethnic tensions, and broadening of civil society, the difference between actions in Iraq and Kosovo is only a matter of degree. Its elevation to principle takes place at the point where Gaddis relies upon our Founding Fathers seeing themselves as having seized a beachhead for liberty in a world run by tyrants, in the context of Robert Kagan’s emphasis on their knowledge that the beachhead would have to expand if it was to be secure: “This meant dominating the North American continent, so that liberty could align itself with power. It also meant propagating the first international revolutionary ideology, one that called, in a more distant future, for the overthrow of tyranny throughout the world.”
The Nuremberg trial established, that to wage war not in self-defense is the supreme war crime. I welcome your abandonment of pretense that attacking Serbia had anything to do with the problems of Kosovo albanians, and everything to do with installing pro-american government and imposing the policies of the Washington consensus. Now the next step for you is to consider, whether it is wise to support war criminals just because they seem to have an upper hand at the present.
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Date: 2008-10-21 07:20 pm (UTC)In relation to the goals of economic reform, mitigation of ethnic tensions, and broadening of civil society, the difference between actions in Iraq and Kosovo is only a matter of degree. Its elevation to principle takes place at the point where Gaddis relies upon our Founding Fathers seeing themselves as having seized a beachhead for liberty in a world run by tyrants, in the context of Robert Kagan’s emphasis on their knowledge that the beachhead would have to expand if it was to be secure: “This meant dominating the North American continent, so that liberty could align itself with power. It also meant propagating the first international revolutionary ideology, one that called, in a more distant future, for the overthrow of tyranny throughout the world.”
The Nuremberg trial established, that to wage war not in self-defense is the supreme war crime. I welcome your abandonment of pretense that attacking Serbia had anything to do with the problems of Kosovo albanians, and everything to do with installing pro-american government and imposing the policies of the Washington consensus. Now the next step for you is to consider, whether it is wise to support war criminals just because they seem to have an upper hand at the present.