Well this might be nice if nations intervened in other countries when bad
things are done and were able to stop the bad things happenings. Often they
cannot. Somalia and Rwanda are good examples. In practice however this
practice would turn out to be the white man's burden, or the Monroe
doctrine, or intervention for selfish interests but presented to the masses
as a morality play with the US or whomever being the good guys against the
bad guys.
Good poetry doesn't necessarily equal good foreign policy.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
----- Original Message -----
From: Brad De Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 11:31 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:1847] Re: Re: Thatcher and nationalism
> >You do not explain why it is "nutso" to consider that it is no business
of
> >the rest of us what dictators do to their own people.
> >But isn't it common among certain types of pragmatist and "realists" to
> >claim that foreign policy ought to be based upon advancing national
> >interest? On this view, hardly nutso, what dictators do to their own
people
> >would be a nation's business only if it impacted significantly on
national
> >interests...
>
> No man is an island, entire of itself;
> Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
> If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less,
> As well as if a promontory were,
> As well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were.
> Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind;
> And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; i
> It tolls for thee....
>
