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Originally Posted by martinguerre
Certainly he is responsible.
But that doesn't preclude responsbility of other parties who encouraged, facilitated, or allowed such actions to happen.
I'm sure you know the Edmund Burke quote, so i'll leave it there.
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I apologize but I am getting more confused.
Are you suggesting that we encuraged Saddam to invade Kuwait, kill his own people, reward suicide bombers, and defy the UN?
Are you suggesting that we facilitated, or helped him do these things? Do you think we are more responsible than the Iraqi people who let him rise to power and then left him unchecked? Do you think we are more responsible than his Arab neighbors? More responsible than his muslim brothers?
I am not sure how you relate Burke's quote, "Liberty without wisdom, and without virtue is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint." to your point. But I actually take it to mean that free people in the world are going to have problems if they lack clear objective thought. Right now I think many in the world and in this country lack wisdom when it comes to confronting evil people.