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[qb]Originally posted by Ronn_Bman:
This is the perfect example of the double standard the US believes it is expected to live up to.
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That isn't my point. I'm not saying that the US should ignore threats to its national security.
No, without going all christian on you (I'm not religious), my point is to 'do unto others as you would have them do unto you'. And I'm certainly not saying 'turn the other cheek' 'cause experience has taught me that path gives you two black eyes instead of one. So by all means, have an active intelligence community monitoring every possible enemy. And if you have strong evidence of terrorists planning another 9-11 attack, go ahead and apprehend them and use deadly force if they don't give themselves up.
No, the point I'm trying to say is that there is a fine line between an ethical policy like the above and a non-ethical policy (like Nicaragua) where the action was taken to destabilise a regime that the US didn't like.
Should Europe have funded terrorists to destabilise Austria when it formed a government that included the Austrian facist party? Or should we just say, well that's democracy in action and, as long as they do not implement any racist policies we'll keep our nose out of their domestic affairs?