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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I'm going to have to read the piece you linked to if we take this much farther so that I can tell you specifically what I disagree with, but there are a bunch of different reasons why we shouldn't do what you call the moral thing all the time. Some have to do with the limits of our power. If some foreigners are trying to kill other foreigners, often there is little we can do about it. Also, there are questions about what gives us the right to impose our views on others. To me, the latter objections evaporate in the face of genocide. But less so the former. What could we do in Zimbabwe to change things in the long run? And then there are the practical problems. How do we intervene in Zimbabwe if none of its neighbors want us to?
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I try to look for the most practical solutions. Sometimes I find the answers because I don't object to immigration. Where the newly oppressed minority (formerly part of the oppressive minority class) is anything resembling 1% or .5% of the population, this country and old europe and whoever else oughta be bringing em in. At least, in the case where they are all of British or Dutch (or some basically single or identifiable) origin. I like to think about the Netherlands as a sorta Israel for Dutch people everywhere. Let these oppressed people move back to their fatherland.
Hell, I'll kick in a bit of money, just so I can quit hearing about them getting raped and killed as Zimbabwe slides completely into chaos and anarchy.
To more directly address the point, military intervention? No way. There are way easier and justifiable/defensible solutions out there, and it doesn't involve intervening on behalf or a formerly-oppressive white minority in Zimbabwe, even if they are the best farmers in the country.
As a really, really good example of what you are talking about with the limits-of-power, I think North Korea is the model case. What in the world can we do there militarily, within reason? The only way we take that country out is by nuking it. And to save its starving people? No thanks. Its an impossible choice, but I'll take their starvation at their G's hands to their destruction at our hands.
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