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Yes - lesser evil is still evil Lesser evil is much better than worse evil though

• ddingus 5y ago
  A lot of dead people over the last few decades would disagree right along with the ones living under governments we essentially seated for them; their own sovereign decisions not being good enough for us apparently. "Better" in the sense of a false choice; namely that power being brought to bear. There is a case for that. There is also a case for use of that power being unnecessary. Our leaders have done the unnecessary a lot. That is often left out of these discussions, and that trends toward bad and worse than need be. Finally, a lot of what gets done is in violation of International law and when or if done by less powerful nations would be punished. Completely unacceptable behavior, frankly. But hey, the bread and circuses, laden with trinkets and baubles are nice, so... Yeah. The piece is an insult.
  • gamechangr 5y ago
    You need to watch Red Dawn again :)
    • ddingus 5y ago
      Well, that is a fine movie. Your point falls flat, not because we do need to be able to deal with a scenario like that. However, we also need to quit creating extremist groups, who use weapons we will often sell them to use! Case in point is a number of governments we did not like, and to help them out of power, we armed their extreme factions, and guess who ends up bigger, often in power after the carnage? Yeah. At this point, there are generations of people who do not like us that much. Iraq was a war for choice over oil, just as one easy example. And sanctions! Helping those undesirable governments out of power by starving their people does tend to make those people enemies. My point here is we are creating potentials that we then need to defend against! That's in addition to the ones we would see anyway. Like I said, the piece is an insult.