To: Cicero
If two unjust men are fighting, the duty of a just man is not to attack the one who has committed marginally fewer gross injustices, nor to stay out of it, but to smash the power of both parties, and institute actual justice, in the place of either side's crimes. Practically, this may not always be possible. But it is the elementary duty such a situation creates. It is obscene to support defenseless men being shot in the back by mocking and indifferent executioners, on the pretext that relatives of those defenseless men once committed some other crime.
16 posted on
06/02/2005 9:22:09 PM PDT by
JasonC
To: JasonC
"If two unjust men are fighting, the duty of a just man is not to attack the one who has committed marginally fewer gross injustices, nor to stay out of it, but to smash the power of both parties, and institute actual justice"
Really? and who died and made you God? If both sides agree to an impartial arbitration by a third party thats fine, but these are foreign nationals who are governed by their own governments.
Unless you agree that every self appointed world court has jurisdiction over the actions of Americans and America then it would be wise if America stayed out of conflicts that have no strategic significance to the US. It's just common sense.
110 posted on
06/03/2005 10:31:41 AM PDT by
monday
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