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Originally Posted by towny
Agreed, we must be careful if tempted to try to occupy the moral high ground. But I can think of at least 300,000 people who would testify that Saddam is indeed insane and undemocratic.
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Yes, but who are we to say this is reason to remove them. Did the pope start a war with england when we burnt catholics.
If we say all countries must be democratic we will set a dangerious precadent and then pretty soon any country without a MCdonalds will be 'liberated'
America has banned communist parties in their own country - if it was up to them the whole world would be banned. This fundamentally defies the point of democracy and each countries soverignty.