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Deploying Marines for gays, feminism and peacekeeping (ANN COULTER)Slams the left
worldnetdaily ^ | 8/21/2002 | Ann Coulter

Posted on 08/21/2002 4:27:27 PM PDT by TLBSHOW

Deploying Marines for gays, feminism and peacekeeping

On a break from lachrymose accounts of Palestinian women weeping for their children, the New York Times has been trying to induce hysteria over the shocking Bush policy of deploying American troops in order to protect American interests. Such self-interested behavior is considered boorish in Manhattan salons.

The only just wars, liberals believe, are those in which the United States has no stake. Liberals warm to the idea of American mothers weeping for their sons, but only if their deaths will not make America any safer.

Thus the Times and various McTimes across the nation have touted the idea that invading Iraq "only" to produce a regime change is unjustifiable, contrary to international law, and a grievous affront to the peace-loving Europeans.

As the left's new pet, Henry No-Longer-a-War-Criminal Kissinger, put it: "Regime change as a goal for military intervention challenges the international system established by the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia. ... And the notion of justified pre-emption runs counter to modern international law, which sanctions the use of force in self-defense only against actual, not potential, threats."

The idea that America would be transgressing the laws of man and God by invading Iraq (unless and until Saddam nukes Manhattan) is absurd.

Does no one remember Clinton's misadventure in the Balkans? Liberals loved that war because Slobodan Milosevic posed no conceivable threat to the United States. To the contrary, as President Clinton put it: "This is America at its best. We seek no territorial gain; we seek no political advantage."

Deposing Milosevic, Clinton explained, vindicated no national interest, but was urgent because it was akin to stopping a "hate crime." Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said our purpose in the Balkans was "ending ethnic strife" and creating "multiethnic societies."

One searches in vain for some description of an American interest in the Balkans.

Instead, Milosevic was denounced – by Clinton, Albright, Tony Blair and the whole croaking chorus – for "genocide." Clinton's defense secretary, William Cohen, estimated that 100,000 Albanian men "may have been murdered."

Liberal enthusiasts for our "humanitarian" war in the Balkans, it turned out, were over-hasty in their use of the word "genocide" in connection with Milosevic. In the end, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia found fewer than 3,000 bodies, most of them men of military age.

Commentators were soon rushing in to explain that these "new details" did not change the fact that Milosevic had engaged in ethnic cleansing and the forced deportation of hundreds of thousands of civilians.

That doesn't make Milosevic a hero, but he's a piker compared to Saddam, who has gassed tens of thousands of his own people and killed almost a million enemy troops in the war with Iran. Liberals oppose a war with Iraq, despite Saddam's far more impressive credentials as a mass murderer, because acting against Saddam is in the self-interest of the United States.

The left's theory of a just war is that: (1) military force must never be deployed in America's self-interest; and (2) we must first receive approval from the Europeans, especially the Germans. (Good thing we didn't have that rule in 1941!)

By liberal logic, preventing Saddam Hussein from nuking Manhattan is not sufficient justification for a pre-emptive strike on Iraq because the United States has a special self-interest in not being nuked and therefore can't be trusted.

Similarly, Israel has less claim to act against Yasser Arafat than NATO did against Milosevic because actual Israelis are getting killed by the terror forces they are battling – so they are self-interested. The Times was warmly enthusiastic about Clinton's humanitarian effort in Kosovo, but is indignant about Israeli self-defense in Gaza.

Moreover, if forced deportation (aka "ethnic cleansing") is grounds for a war crimes trial of Milosevic, what is Arafat doing when he demands that all Israeli settlements be removed from the disputed territories of the West Bank? Milosevic gets a trial at the Hague for forced deportations. Arafat stages terrorist attacks to compel the forced deportation of Israelis, and he's a martyr if Israel messes up his office furniture in Ramallah.

The point – which is always the same point – is that we must not protect ourselves but should just let liberals run the world. Liberals believe they are best qualified in war and peace and forced busing because they aren't going to suffer the consequences. Thus, they can act freely for "humanity." If it turns sour, like their adventure in Vietnam, they can always drop it and pin the blame on others.


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1 posted on 08/21/2002 4:27:28 PM PDT by TLBSHOW
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To: TLBSHOW
Posted by lancer256 On Aug 21 6:11 PM with 4 comments

Lancer256 beat you by about 15 min. The boy has a eye for Ann's mind.

2 posted on 08/21/2002 4:40:16 PM PDT by Blue Screen of Death
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To: TLBSHOW
I'm glad she brought up the Kosovo mess and compared it to Iraq. LOL. Good grief. We bombed a bridge during rush hour, deliberately, during Kosovo, for 'ideal impact'. We bombed a Serb TV station because we didn't like what it was saying. Civilian Christian Serbs slaughtered daily in that war for the sake of displaced Albanians trying to move to Kosovo.
3 posted on 08/21/2002 4:40:44 PM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March
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To: TLBSHOW
*****Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said our purpose in the Balkans was "ending ethnic strife" and creating "multiethnic societies."******

...in addition to that is also helped "move the dialogue forward...(sarcasm)

4 posted on 08/21/2002 4:53:42 PM PDT by anncoulteriscool
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March
We bombed a bridge during rush hour, deliberately, during Kosovo, for 'ideal impact'. We bombed a Serb TV station because we didn't like what it was saying. Civilian Christian Serbs slaughtered daily in that war for the sake of displaced Albanians trying to move to Kosovo.

Also a commuter train and an OB/GYN ward.

5 posted on 08/21/2002 4:56:51 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin
And all from 50,000 feet?
6 posted on 08/21/2002 4:59:44 PM PDT by LuigiBasco
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March
The war against Serbia was one war I could not support (my youthful opposition to the Vietnam war notwithstanding and I changed my views there).

Don Feder made the excellent case against support the Islamic drug runners in Kosovo.

Ann Coulter does give the misleading impression that Henry Kissenger opposes a war with Iraq. This is not the case. I made the same mistake earlier about Dr. Kissenger and made my amends.

7 posted on 08/21/2002 5:01:37 PM PDT by UbIwerks
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To: BenLurkin
And the Chinese embassy?
8 posted on 08/21/2002 5:02:39 PM PDT by abclily
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To: BenLurkin
And the Chinese embassy?
9 posted on 08/21/2002 5:02:59 PM PDT by abclily
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To: TLBSHOW
i have been gone for a couple of weeks has the rule about ann coulter changed since there are no pics
10 posted on 08/21/2002 5:08:08 PM PDT by TheRedSoxWinThePennant
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To: TLBSHOW
i have been gone for a couple of weeks has the rule about ann coulter changed since there are no pics
11 posted on 08/21/2002 5:08:21 PM PDT by TheRedSoxWinThePennant
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To: summer; Howlin; mombonn; Sabertooth; Miss Marple; *Ann Coulter list; BraveMan; 1riot1ranger; ...
Pinging the Coulter list.
12 posted on 08/21/2002 5:40:47 PM PDT by Pokey78
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To: redsoxallthewayintwothousand2
Hey! Where the pictures?
13 posted on 08/21/2002 5:45:15 PM PDT by Frohickey
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To: UbIwerks
Don Feder made the excellent case against support the Islamic drug runners in Kosovo.

Indeed. The KLAs primary revenue to finance their war was/is drugs. Principled Muslims, aren't they?

14 posted on 08/21/2002 5:55:22 PM PDT by Freemeorkillme
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To: TLBSHOW
If the possible nuking of the US is a trigger
to invade Iraq (Iraq has ICBMs?  I really
don't think so.), then shouldn't we be
going into Communist China first?  They
have already professed a willingness to
render Los Angeles livable again, if
slightly radioactive, and China has the
means to deliver.  No, Anne, Saddam's
phantom ability to nuke Manhattan isn't
a threat to the United States, any more
than Slobo's ethnic cleaning was.
We don't yet have any justification
for invading Iraq.  If you're talking
national interest, then the logical
people to take out Saddam are
the Israelis.
15 posted on 08/21/2002 6:02:04 PM PDT by gcruse
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To: TLBSHOW
Bingo. Liberalism is a ploy by a few would be tyrants to gain the support of the masses by convincing them to work for some purpose, any purpose, that is not to one's own damn good, not subject to common sense.

If you're working for the obvious benefit of yourself, your family and your neighbors, doing something you can observe the benefits and costs of, and experience the results of, then you are the enemy of liberals. For you are in control of your own life.

If you can be persuaded, out of guilt or fear or whatever, to work to save the starving children in a faraway land (not the one next door), or the environment (but not the tree in your backyard) or the victims of genocide or the homeless or the elderly (in the abstract - not your actual mother) or world peace or whatever, then you are in the control of the spinmeisters who establish these "goals". They can get you to do anything, just by spinning it right.

For a few, such as Dr. Livingston or Mother Theresa, such faraway ills are immediate and personal, and something to be directly addressed from personal awareness. God bless them.

But do-gooders from a distance are a dangerous fuel for the liberal mischief of tyrants.

16 posted on 08/21/2002 6:13:54 PM PDT by ThePythonicCow
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To: Frohickey
Ok - ok.
17 posted on 08/21/2002 6:16:04 PM PDT by ThePythonicCow
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To: ThePythonicCow
Or
18 posted on 08/21/2002 6:17:17 PM PDT by ThePythonicCow
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To: ThePythonicCow
Or these:
19 posted on 08/21/2002 6:21:23 PM PDT by ThePythonicCow
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To: ThePythonicCow
If you can be persuaded, out of guilt or fear or whatever, to work to save the starving children in a faraway land (not the one next door), or the environment (but not the tree in your backyard) or the victims of genocide or the homeless or the elderly (in the abstract - not your actual mother) or world peace or whatever, then you are in the control of the spinmeisters who establish these "goals". They can get you to do anything, just by spinning it right.

Ooh, I like this statement. Thanks.

20 posted on 08/21/2002 6:22:32 PM PDT by serinde
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