Why interventionism fails
AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo
08/17/07
Aggressive wars are immoral: mass murder is unforgivable, and our foreign policy of global interventionism puts us in the same moral class as any of the European imperialist powers that blundered their way through Africa, Eastasia, the Americas, and the Middle East. Anti-imperialism is, first and foremost, a moral position, especially for Americans, who have always utilized the world stage to dramatize their own virtue. Yet the question of how, when, and if we ought to intervene abroad, either militarily or in some other, less obtrusive manner, can also be settled in its own terms. The case against interventionism can be made in a purely practical, empirical framework: i.e. it can be shown that it just doesn’t work. Not because the wrong people are in charge, not due to incompetence, the wearing of ideological blinders, or some other disability or shortcoming on the part of policymakers — but because it is simply not possible, no matter who is in charge...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11460
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=war+aggression
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interventionism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=imperialist
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=empire
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/justin
by Justin Raimondo
08/17/07
Aggressive wars are immoral: mass murder is unforgivable, and our foreign policy of global interventionism puts us in the same moral class as any of the European imperialist powers that blundered their way through Africa, Eastasia, the Americas, and the Middle East. Anti-imperialism is, first and foremost, a moral position, especially for Americans, who have always utilized the world stage to dramatize their own virtue. Yet the question of how, when, and if we ought to intervene abroad, either militarily or in some other, less obtrusive manner, can also be settled in its own terms. The case against interventionism can be made in a purely practical, empirical framework: i.e. it can be shown that it just doesn’t work. Not because the wrong people are in charge, not due to incompetence, the wearing of ideological blinders, or some other disability or shortcoming on the part of policymakers — but because it is simply not possible, no matter who is in charge...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11460
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=war+aggression
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interventionism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=imperialist
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=empire
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/justin
rudkla - 20. Aug, 10:58
