At 12:48 AM 8/19/00 -0700, Daniel Ust wrote:
>My point with my comment was not everyone on this list should become a
>libertarian. It was just a lament on the fact that almost everyone who has
>responded to me on the Kosovo War has been for it. Not one other here has
>spoken against it -- at least, not to my recollection. And at least two
>people have given it their thumbs up. I find that rather strange because I
>bet on any other list, on this topic, I'd find people who vary on that.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I didn't reply because I had already
stated my opinion on the subject many times before (not on this list, though.)
I don't think that we (the economic superpowers) have a mandate to
interfere with the affairs of other countries when they don't threaten the
life and livelihood of our citizens. I can think of a thousand better
things to spend my tax dollars on than shooting eastern Europeans when
they're perfectly happy to shoot each other for free.
That's not a particularly humanitarian sentiment, but I never suggested
that I was a humanitarian..
--Wilson.
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