Letters to the Editor
-
national security
Glenn,
Good job on nailing that lying Klein.
"... Yet the liberal punditocracy and Democratic consulting class drone on with the only theme they know: Democrats are being "foolishly partisan" by opposing Bush's national security demands and must capitulate still further if they know what's good for them."
The main problem as I see it, is that the Democrats and the Party "leadership" are also totally committed to a foreign policy of interventionism. They agree with the Republicans; we have the "right" and "duty" to treat others as our vassal servants; or slaves.
Perhaps you will use a post in the future to outline what the national foreign policy should be. From a moral standpoint, invading other counties seems wrong to me. From a legal standpoint; we claimed at Nuremberg that the High Command of Germany was guilty of war crimes for invading Poland.
The accused faced four charges of having committed war crimes and crimes against humanity:
1. Crimes against peace by waging aggressive war against other nations and violating international treaties.
2. War crimes by being responsible for murder, ill-treatment and other crimes against prisoners of war and enemy belligerents.
3. Crimes against humanity by participating or ordering the murder, torture, deportation, hostage-taking, etc. of civilians in occupied countries.
4. Participating and organizing the formulations and execution of a common plan and conspiracy to commit aforementioned crimes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Command_Trial
Will we in the USA ever consider the moral and legal limits to our actions?