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- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 15:44:00 EST
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- From: YONI@BROWNCOG.BITNET
- Subject: Re: U.S Military Intervention
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- I found Mitch Hagmaier's response interesting. While on one side I read
- Austin Kerr's calling war a failure of diplomacy I see Hagmaier calling it
- an option of diplomacy as he states:
- >conversely, are you willing to see the Bosnian Muslem culture a community
- destroyed and the bits blown to the four corners of the world? Any half-way
- response or partial involvement*will* deepen the mess ans possibly create a
- holacaust. This is what I mean when I claim that war needs to be seen as
- an option of diplomacy,not a failure of it>
-
- What I ask is whether it is fair to use historical examples to prove that
- U.S military intervention is justified or not. WHen we use historical examples
- aren't we just using hindsight? How can we use historical examples to come up
- with a conclusion that U.S intervention is justified,unjustified, or justified
- at times? Or can we possibly come up with a general principle using historical
- examples? Can we say that U.S intervention is justified because if in the past
- we had nor intervened millions of people would have died,human rights violated,
- our interests threatened and so on.
-
- Can we say that U.S intervention is justified using historical examples of when
- we did not intervene and atrocities came about therefore the U.S should have
- acted?
- Thanks
- Yoni
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