tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post2459985872841043319..comments2024-03-13T21:26:03.011-07:00Comments on Right on the Left Coast: Views From a Conservative Teacher: The Moral Emptiness of the LeftDarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15730642770935985796noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-66736290738535588352007-07-03T10:37:00.000-07:002007-07-03T10:37:00.000-07:00http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cf...http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=112Darrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15730642770935985796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-76511348757088777502007-07-03T07:52:00.000-07:002007-07-03T07:52:00.000-07:00Churchill didn't say it.Churchill didn't say it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-77770329290179506822007-07-02T21:48:00.000-07:002007-07-02T21:48:00.000-07:00Isn't it funny that for years many of the ex-colon...Isn't it funny that for years many of the ex-colonies tried to distance them selves from the UK, but when the chips are down, the try to guilt the UK into saving their collective bacon. While the argument might have been valid 50 years ago that Britain's colonial rule weakened the attempts of native persons to form working governments, after some period of time you have to put down failure after failure to a cultural acceptance of tribal law over civil law. And tribal law doesn't work in nation building because it is specific to each tribal unit-which in turn caused civil wars. So perhaps the structure that the Brits left behind was worth saving after all. But then again, so many of these nations' leaders have been in the pay of China or Russia in the bad old days, that with the fall of the USSR, they are looking for another sugar daddy. And so it goes....Ellen Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02845981491726296767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-11063738962969504362007-07-02T20:06:00.000-07:002007-07-02T20:06:00.000-07:00Yet another example of debate on the right.Yet another example of debate on the right.Darrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15730642770935985796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-51474875375057821702007-07-02T20:02:00.000-07:002007-07-02T20:02:00.000-07:00Man, that's a tough one but I think I have to come...Man, that's a tough one but I think I have to come down on the side of no intervention. <BR/><BR/>If the folks in that part of the world have taken it into their heads to settle their differences to rhythm of automatic weapons fire then leaving them alone to do so is the prudent, maybe even moral, thing to do. <BR/><BR/>Has getting between two warring factions ever put an end to violence? From what I've been able to observe, no. So intervention would amount to sending young Americans off to be killed doing a job that can't be accomplished. Now that's immoral.<BR/><BR/>Still, there ought to be something we can do to put stick in the spokes of the Sudanese government's bicycle.allenmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02892084607361361603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-73097047630389439032007-07-02T18:52:00.000-07:002007-07-02T18:52:00.000-07:00It would be morally justified. I hate to admit it...It would be morally justified. I hate to admit it, but I'm coming around to Michael Walzer's "just war criteria" in his book Just And Unjust Wars.<BR/><BR/>I've written about Darfur before.<BR/>http://rightontheleftcoast.blogspot.com/2006/02/helping-people-of-darfur.html<BR/>http://rightontheleftcoast.blogspot.com/2006/10/cases-for-us-intervention-in-darfur.htmlDarrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15730642770935985796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-8312511093613749022007-07-02T18:36:00.000-07:002007-07-02T18:36:00.000-07:00Do you support intervention in Darfur?Do you support intervention in Darfur?Eric W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17266823523660676253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-87041630462551547832007-07-01T19:55:00.000-07:002007-07-01T19:55:00.000-07:00Someone (usually identified as Churchill but may h...Someone (usually identified as Churchill but may have been Clemenceau) said (approximately) "Anyone who is not a leftist before 30 has no heart; anyone who *is* a leftist after 30 has no head."<BR/><BR/>We now have a substantial population of leftists who have *neither* heart nor head.David Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464681514800720063noreply@blogger.com