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Originally posted by wonderwench
As you linked the graph, I assumed that you supported what it represents.
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I don't happen to think that you can simultaneously reject and accept a piece of evidence, but logic, like everything, is subjective.
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You are using the "U.S. is not perfect so we are just as bad as those who murder millions of their own citizens" rationale. Please show me documentation of the mass graves filled with brutally murdered U.S. citizens on the part of our government. This bit of G2 has quite escaped my notice.
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I am referring to actions that the United States is directly complicent in, not any vague moral equivication. Our government as supported terrible people....no one can contest that.
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Human rights are first and foremost the responsibility of a nation's government. The U.S. is responsible for U.S. citizens. Other governments are responsible for the welfare of their own. When we do interfere in the internal politics of another nation, the justification must include that it is in the interests of our own national security to do so.
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Security is always the justification for a war. Whether or not it is a true claim depends on the war.