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Foreign Policy: Bush Says to Jihadists: Bring It On
Bring it on. The US Occupation Forces in Iraq, your one-stop shopping center for all your martyrdom needs. You want martyrdom, we've got it retail, we've got it wholesale. We've got so much martyrdom we're giving it away.
If you have an AK-47, if you have a beard, and if you can ululate, we've got a martyrdom opportunity for you, Johnny Jihad.
To anyone offended by Bush's tone, or by the idea that he's encouraging attacks on US troops: Would you rather they attacked armed, armored American soldiers in Iraq or would you rather they attacked American civilians in America.
Remember PJ O'Rourke's definition of American foreign policy--the vague feeling by Americans that whatever the government is going to do is probably best done in some other country.
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Foreign Policy: Today's Secret Word is Invasion
Why, when people talk about sending armed soldiers into a country without clearing customs, do we shy away from the word "invasion"? Is it an ugly word? If so, it must be because it is an ugly thing, which is understandable--violence, killing, blood, death, etc. But if it is an ugly thing, is it made less ugly by pretending it's not?
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Foreign Policy: UN Asks US to Invade--Altruism Explains It All
Today, President George W. Bush is considering an invasion of Liberia. This is not the result of any threat Liberia poses to the United States, real or imagined, imminent or potential, direct or remote. The civil war in Liberia does not threaten the United States, American or world trade routes, US allies, or US access to a crucial resource. It does not threaten an area important to U.S. security. The war doesn't even threaten to "overwhelm our borders with refugees."
The proposed invasion of Liberia has been invited by many of the same groups, people and nations which opposed the US invasion of Iraq as immoral. Their different stands on the two countries appear contradictory, but it is the logical result of applying the moral doctrine of altruism. Altruism is when one helps another without benefit to oneself. Action, to the altruist, is moral only if it is for someone else's benefit. To the altruist, selfishness is the definition and the root of sin. Since Iraq presented a threat to the United States, the invasion of Iraq was a selfish act, and therefore immoral. Since Liberia presents no threat to the United States, the invasion of, excuse me, humanitarian intervention in, Liberia is an unselfish, altruistic act and therefore praiseworthy. Therefore, the United States should sacrifice the blood of our soldiers to impose peace in Liberia.
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Foreign Policy: Like Father, Like Son
President Bush, after acting against the threat from Saddam Hussein's Iraq, is considering sending American troops into a war-torn African country on a peacekeeping mission to avert a humanitarian disaster and assist in the construction of a consensus government.
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