First stop Uganda. Second stop, the other 90% of Africa controlled by oppressive warlords. Third stop, Burma. Fourth stop, the Middle East. Fifth stop, North Korea…
If that scenario is absurd, then please explain why the US government should do something about Kony but not one of the other billion dictators and warlords in the world? You claim that you do not want to go around the world liberating people, yet this is exactly what you suggest.
Me, yesterday:
I don’t think any kind of localized military intervention in that region would facilitate improvement…Africa can only be civilized by urging them to adopt western values, and nudging them along in that direction through non-military means
Furthermore, we live in a world where the legitimate interests of people are inter-connected across borders. And you cannot logically separate the legitimate interests of Americans from those of non-Americans. If the rights of Americans are to be fully protected, the US government has to be the agent who uses force to protect those rights, across the globe. That means acting to protect freedom globally.
You specifically stated the the government should use force to protect rights around the world, even if the affected parties are not American. If Kony is a special circumstance, then what should the US gov do, if anything?
Justice abroad is important, but it is impossible to civilize an uncivlized place without the most brutal of methods, and even then their form of civilization will show signs of their past savagery (Japan today).
If the united states does anything about that warlord, in order to do it correctly many many people will have to die. I don’t think people understand that “liberating” a nation often inolves putting most of it to death.
Until those people threaten us, we owe it to them to let those people struggle for freedom and civilization in their own way.
Justice abroad is important, but it is impossible to civilize an uncivlized place without the most brutal of methods, and even then their form of civilization will show signs of their past savagery (Japan today).