Cortlandt

I've read your posts on the various related threads with some interest although I confess to being rather perplexed by them. If you get a moment, perhaps you could help me understand.

You wrote:
>I am in favor of intervention when, as in this case because of Hussein's
equivocations and procrastinations, no other option remains.

Do you think everything that could be done peacefully has been tried?

>What it comes down to is this: We have a moral obligation to intervene where
evil is in control. Today, that place is Iraq.

Why do we have a "moral obligation"?
And you define "evil", how?
When we (UK, US, etc) traded with Saddam and considered him a friend (in full knowledge of his activities), was he "evil" then? If so, what does that make us?
Is war "evil"?


Just wondering, philosophically

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