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Originally posted by Taz's Master
I find the argument as to the legitimacy of Israel and its occupation of territory interesting. One question: when does might make right? If Egypt, Syria, Jordan... cannot protect/enforce their own boarders, do they have the right/power/ability to legislate the area, when Israel carved out their own country in wars did they earn the right to govern themselves as America did in the 1700's?
Pat, I also am interested in reading your conclusions as to how war should be carried out. You demonize Lincoln, Sherman, Roosevelt, and Truman, yet the wars they were involved in ended in US victory and lasting peace. In all those examples of extended viloence earlier in the post Germany, Italy, Japan, the North and South in the US were not included. I believe the terrible cost of those wars contributed to the lasting peace, and would prefer that our military not be employed without the reslove to use its capabilities. Had we not pulled back in 1991, it is easy to speculate that your animosity toward our current President could well be limited to his domestic ploicies.
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Taking just your statement about Lincoln's illegal invasion and conquest of the Confederacy, it did not in fact end in a lasting peace.
For 12 additional years, the Union waged a war of terror upon the conquered territory of the Confederacy, and is continuing to wage a war of cultural genocide today.
I think it's easy to show that there is no peace in the South today, just that there is no ongoing shooting war, yet.