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Originally posted by RaGe2012
For starters, I'd rather live in a world where countries are free to govern themselves as they see fit. If the people want a dictator, so be it.
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Are you joking?
I'm sure that the thousands that Saddam had gassed were perfectly happy having him run the country. The people whose corpses we found piled together in mass-graves obviously had no objection to Saddam's regime.
No matter what way you slice it, the US is currently the world super-power, and foreign policy will be dictated by what is in
our best interest. What is
not in our best interest, is having terrorist-supporting nations with flimsy extremist governments that massacre their own population running around with nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons. Is it nice? No, but the security of our nation and that of our allies is more important than the political freedom of an enemy state. The world is not a democracy, and the UN is not an effective means of resolution anymore.
I doubt that we will formally invade Iran, there is enough dissent among their own people to cause a change of power. If a Tienamen-Square-like slaughter of peaceful protestors occurs, though, I think we should offer military support to the dissidents.
As for North Korea, China, Japan, and South Korea can pummel it if necessary and we have troops and ships parked nearby and diplomatic talks ongoing.