tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110398.post142473031193133042..comments2023-11-03T01:07:27.013-07:00Comments on THE rEPUBLICAN OBSERVER: Alexander V. Marriotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17781689609653626889noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110398.post-87649655217296826522011-08-07T12:38:48.251-07:002011-08-07T12:38:48.251-07:00Wars against Irak, Afganistan and Libia are as inv...Wars against Irak, Afganistan and Libia are as invasion of Poland in 1939 by Stalin , Hitler and SlowvakiaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110398.post-22362118057492478632011-03-26T13:06:41.263-07:002011-03-26T13:06:41.263-07:00@Burgess:
The central argument is repeated through...@Burgess:<br />The central argument is repeated throughout in various ways, but it perhaps most explicit in the line: "No one in the world has the right to kill and murder American citizens and get away with it. It does not matter how long ago it was. Our countrymen are not less valuable to us because they have been murdered, nor do we drop our quest for vengeance and justice because years pass before we had an opportunity to have it."<br /><br />Gadhafi is personally responsible for murdering perfectly innocent American citizens who were not in his country committing any crimes or infractions that would cause an international incident. Instead they were in Western Europe on vacation, or stationed in military bases minding their own business before being targeted for death by Gadhafi and his underlings.<br /><br />All governments--but I think especially a republic like ours--must treat that sort of thing as unforgiveable until some measure of justice is extracted. Gadhafi's death, in this case, is more than overdue and appropriate.<br /><br /><br /><br />@Anonymous:<br />Thank you for taking such painstaking efforts to read my argument here and then comment upon it. Oh wait, you didn't. I at no point suggest that I give a damn about who rules Libya except in the sense that a man who murdered American citizens openly and without remorse deserves death if we have the chance to deliver it. That is not altruism unless you think you have no interest in punishing the guilt for horrific crimes against your fellow citizens. In which case, leave a letter someplace so that in case you are ever the victim of some terrorist action, the rest of us can know that you think us finding and killing the perps in a nonsensical act of altruism and you would be offended by it.<br /><br />In the future, deal with what is actually being said in the post before you just write random gibberish.Alexander V. Marriotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17781689609653626889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110398.post-24927161852150416452011-03-26T12:09:31.581-07:002011-03-26T12:09:31.581-07:00Nonsense. "Liberating" Libya is an act o...Nonsense. "Liberating" Libya is an act of altruism. We have no legitimate interest in who runs that patch of sand.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110398.post-91561397245112339192011-03-25T14:34:59.078-07:002011-03-25T14:34:59.078-07:00> "I could continue to lay out the history...> "I could continue to lay out the history of wars or near wars that the American republic has fought or threatened to fight to maintain the honor, dignity and <b>rights of Americans abroad</b> who were minding their own business or merely trying to perform their jobs without injury and offense to others." (Bold added.)<br /><br />I am trying to find the central issue. Is the issue the nature of a proper government <i>in relation to its citizens after they have left the country</i>?<br /><br />Is the following the bone of contention? <br /><br />A proper government is obligated to protect the rights of every citizen even when that citizen leaves the country. If that government fails to protect the rights of its citizens <i>abroad</i>, it is obligated to avenge those whose rights are violated by other governments or the various criminals they harbor.Burgess Laughlinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13865479709475171678noreply@blogger.com