----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Land" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <brin-l@mccmedia.com> Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 5:11 PM Subject: Re: Rhetorical Questions RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3
> On Apr 25, 2005, at 2:30 PM, Nick Arnett wrote: > > > On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:32:37 -0500, Dan Minette wrote > > > >> Preventing someone from causing grave harm to us and our allies is > >> not codependant behavior. > > > > Of course. But how do we decide that someone is about to cause grave > > harm? > > That's the hard question, not whether to respond. Ideally, like the > > police at > > their best, we do absolutely everything we can to avoid coming to such > > a > > confrontation, then do everything we can to allow the other party to > > back > > down. > > Most police forces have a "Crime Prevention Unit." It does not, > generally speaking, preemptively invade the homes of potential criminals. It does > run programs that aim to address the causes of crime. If we're going to use > a criminal justice model to describe international relations, perhaps > that's what's needed, as opposed to a SWAT team. OK, I never meant to advance the criminal justice model for international relationships. I was merely pointing out a counter example to the notion that interfering with the actions of another country presupposes that the leaders of the other country are children. Do you think that the criminal justice model as a good one? Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
