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- From: dfo@tko.vtt.fi (Foxvog Douglas)
- Subject: Re: Neo-Pacifism (Re: A pacifist's call for conditional support for US action in Somalia)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.065036.20084@ousrvr.oulu.fi>
- Sender: news@ousrvr.oulu.fi
- Organization: VTT
- References: <BzHAE2.5w8@apollo.hp.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 06:50:36 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- In article <BzHAE2.5w8@apollo.hp.com> goykhman_a@apollo.hp.com (Alex Goykhman) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec18.202245.6709@mont.cs.missouri.edu> dfo@tko.vtt.fi (Foxvog Douglas) writes:
- >>I am a pacifist US citizen who has been appalled at US military
- >>interventions around the world since I became politically aware in the
- >>1960s. I know of the terrible things that my government has done and
- >>all the ways they try to sugar coat their reasons for taking their
- >>actions. So in no way am i disposed to favor US military actions.
-
- >>However, i find the US intervention in Somalia to be different. There
- >>are hundreds of thousands of people starving to death because small
- >>groups of armed men block the provision of food to them (after stealing
- >>their livestock and preventing their farming during a drought). I
- >>support the protection of food convoys to the starving people.
- >...
-
- > Another word, you do support U.S. military intervention abroad,
- > as long as it suits your political agenda.
-
- Not quite. This was a quite unique circumstance which i explained
- rather completely in the deleted text. (I understand that it was deleted
- to save space.) My point was (and is) to examine what is being done
- and to decide on that basis the validity of an action. I would
- definitely agree that there are almost no cases in which military
- intervention is justified. I carefully explained why this was an
- exception and the limits to which we should support this operation.
-
- >-------------------------------------------------------------------
- >"Follow the money." Other opinions are mine.
- > Deep Throat Disclaimer:
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- doug foxvog
- dfo@tko.vtt.fi
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