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The Slow Bible's avatar

The bottom line on foreign policy and morality (or justice) is this: if a nation does not care for the interests of its own citizens, who will do it?

If our nation must devote itself to the welfare of other nations, will those other nations look to our welfare? Certainly not. This is what Plato was addressing in your last quotation. The United Nations does not care for the good of US citizens. It sees the citizens of one nation as the piggy bank with which to buy the support of other nations.

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RAM's avatar

Is today's EU really in the Free World?

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RAM's avatar
Apr 1Edited

The idea that a just society benefits from other just societies around it is sound, but a lot of good can still be done locally regardless. Nations, like people, need freedom to do their own constructive experiments. Settled politics is as mythical as settled science.

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Tim Hurlocker's avatar

Great last line, the only settled end state is death. True in economics as well.

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Tim Hurlocker's avatar

It is ironic that Bush's noble internationalism ends with us supporting a non-democratic Ukraine against a non-democratic Russia. Is there a real election anywhere on the horizon?

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RAM's avatar

He had no problem with absolute monarchs in Arabia, who happened to own his family.

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Duane Oyen's avatar

Can you offer any documented evidence about this old accusation? What did GWB ever take from Saudi Arabia that was of personal benefit, as opposed to beneficial to the US?

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RAM's avatar
Apr 2Edited

Look up "Bandar Bush" and all the Bush family's relationships with the Saudi royal family.

This is not to say that GWB personally cashed in. Did you ever wonder why the Saudis were left out of US retaliation for 9/11? Instead. they were treated as a US ally.

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Duane Oyen's avatar

You seriously believe that Ukraine is in the same democracy class as Putin's Russia?

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Duane Oyen's avatar

Someone tell Steve that CrackerJacks has no cool prizes any longer- all you ever get is a sticker. I think it is the post-COVID inflation decoder ring crisis.

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