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> NO COUNTRY has ever intervened to "bring justice" to another country. Except the US when dealing with Manuel Noriega.
by mhurron 11y ago
> NO COUNTRY has ever intervened to "bring justice" to another country.
Except the US when dealing with Manuel Noriega.
- cafard 11y agoI think that you need to move that quotation mark one token right. One could instance India's intervention in the then East Pakistan, which became Bangladesh; the always bad relations between India and Pakistan had plenty to do with it, but I don't think were the deciding factor. It has been a while since that was in the news, though, and I haven't read up on it since.
- hga 11y agoFrom my brief look at that conflict, how the fight in East Pakistan was spilling over into India, millions? of refugees fleeing and that sort of thing that compelled them to act. That they could poke West Pakistan in the eye was just gravy, that this was a humanitarian action was incidental, sort of like Vietnam's intervention in Cambodia which put paid to the Khmer Rouge's extraordinary demoniacal regime. They didn't invade to do that, or have their National Guard equivalent give the PRC a drubbing, they did it to stop the Khmer Rouge from going across the (disputed) border and slaughtering their own people.
- imglorp 11y agoNoriega was not a justice or humanitarian thing. It was a regional politics thing. See also Saddam. If we were serious about justice and humanity, we'd have intervened in Rwanda and NK and other disasters long ago.