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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." --C.S. Lewis

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:: Thursday, June 24, 2004 ::

Choke on This Pretzle

To the extent that America is the undisputed World's Policeman with American Servicemen and women deployed in high-risk standoffs in almost every nation on the face of the friggin globe; and further, that the American taxpayer is wholly funding this elaborate international security machine for thankless psuedo-nations like France and Haiti...who-in-the-hell besides maybe Jimmy Carter thinks this is a good idea!

Admittedly, many are saying American troops are unlikely to find themselves entangled in an ICC investigation but I think, on principle, we should not have made this radical concession.

Ironically al-Zarqawi or bin Laden will never be charged by the UN as a 'war criminals' because they're not regular old foot-soldiers, they're insurgents and freedom fighters.

Update: Splash has some thoughts on this. If you're interested in a soldiers opinion, go here [>]

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