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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
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justified? you can't take the position Iraq was not "justified" but Bosnia was, can you? unless you mean did Bush "justify it," rather than was it justified.
prompted? probably not.
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Yeah, I should have left the "justified" out. I'm not very up on these things, but I would assume there are many places in today's world where a humantarian intervention would hypothetically be just.
I was hoping to focus more on the actual political calculus of sending american troops. Since Somalia it appears that our country has a clear predisposition against humanitarian intervention. Not saying that's good or bad, just saying that "Iraq is in a humanitarian crisis" would not have gotten the attention that the mushroom cloud smoking gun did
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I think the question you really meant to ask was, do we (I) think that the WMD reason (Iraq) was equal to the humanitarian reason (Bosnia).
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Sort of. Dean's point was that a humanitarian situation such as Bosnia may justify the unilateral use of military force. Dean's calling card is his criticism of the Iraq war, which had a humanitarian component but was largely sold on the basis of security concerns. I do not find these two things inconsistent on their face, and wasn't sure if that was based on my natural affinity for Dean as a Dem.
I suppose I should add a disclaimer here that Dean isn't my horse in this race, yet. But I'm not sure anyone cares. Or, to put it another way, I'm fairly sure no one does.
