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July 3, 2006
Three Cheers for the United States of America
[Note: this is a slightly revised version of what I posted last July 4, 2005]
There now is a force in this world doing systematically what we all want done: eliminating democide and its aggressive forces, while trying to supplant it with its solution--democracy.
In 1999, the United States and its NATO allies saved Kosovo from the Slobodan Milosevic regime's mass murder. It had used its military, and paramilitary forces to slaughter about 10,000 Kosovo Albanians and drive out of the country perhaps a million of these poor people. The American and allied intervention also paved the way for Milosevic to be indicted by the International War Crimes Tribunal and extradited to The Hague in June 2001 to stand trial. We should cheer this.
In the last few years, The United States and its allies have swept away two gangs of democidal thugs and prime supporters of terrorism. Saddam Hussein's gang perhaps murdered two million in war and democide; the Taliban gang murdered hundreds of thousands. About 50 million Iraqis and Afghans that were suffering the tyranny, torture, imprisonment, and murder by these thugs are now free, and both now have democratically elected governments. We should cheer this.
(Continued here)
Posted by Rudy at July 3, 2006 10:22 PM
