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Originally posted by bilmore
The fact that anyone could not latch onto it with a degree of fervor is what's so dismaying to me.
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Like I've said, I admire the worldview. But many people (not just americans, but univerally) do not share it for their own selfish reasons, and not all of those reasons are tied to membership in A.N.S.W.E.R.
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We're debating the efficiencies of stopping the Holocaust. That's the philosophy that kept us from Rwanda, to our eternal dishonor. To ignore such a need is, to me, antithetical to one's own humanity, and I cannot make myself believe that the majority, as you term them, doesn't share that basic value.
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Run a poll, asking that if you knew Saddam slaughtered 5-7 million of his own people, would it be worth (or, even retrospectively, would it have been worth) 5 million american lives to stop it?
Ok, what about 3 million?
1 million?
The results will be depressing, but the results do not occur simply because they would be useful Democratic talking points.
I agree, it is antithetical to one's humanity to ignore such a need. But it's also an inherently human inclination to ignore suffering unless it threatens one's selfish, self-interest.
