I dont agree with Robertson but do you know how odd this sounds coming from a conservative website? I dont know all the facts but my take is Taylor isnt threatening the United States one iota. Bush has no real right to remove him considering the threat level Taylor poses to us.
The key here is that Bush isn't removing him - he merely suggested that if he wanted aid and support for his country, he had to step down. Otherwise, they could try to figure it out themselves...
I dont know all the facts but my take is Taylor isnt threatening the United States one iota. Bush has no real right to remove him considering the threat level Taylor poses to us.
Taylor has accepted millions to shelter senior Al Qaeda operatives.
Al Qaeda is also laundering and stashing money via black market Liberian diamonds, under Taylor’s protection.
He needs a bullet in his head.
The line of reasoning which says despotism is to be accepted as long as it happens to someone else is a betrayal of America's founding priciples. Despotism is never "Okay."
Natural right trumps national sovereignty, and only individuals have natural rights. America has long been the champion of individual, natural rights. If Bush can effect a change of leadership in Liberia by telling Taylor to go--more power to him. An elected tyrant is still a tyrant, and a political process which results in dictatorship is broken. Sweep it away and try again.
I see no contridiction in conservatives cheering the passing of a democratically elected tyrant--if by "conservatives" once means the supporters of ordered liberty.