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Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
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Alexis de Torqueville
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Did I ever say that there was no possibility of ANY conquest being justified?
I remember arguing that as a general rule foreign intervention violated the rights of the foreigners but I never said there were absolutely no exceptions (most rules have exceptions), the case of ancient Israel that I cited was justified because GOD owns the world and is the judge, jury and executioner of justice, he could give the land to the Israelites and command the extermination of it's inhabitants, he is perfectly within his rights to give the order to "Kill them all and let me sort them out".
If there was a tribe of cannibals that lived next door and they regularly raided into our territory to kill and kidnap that would probably also justify a conquest or possibly even an extermination, as I said I have not yet conquered the civilization vs. barbarism question.
However in almost all cases in history the situation is not so clear cut so it is always best to lean towards non-interventionism.
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
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