He quotes Timothy Egan,
The isolationists in
the Republican Party are a direct result of the Bush foreign policy.
A war-weary public
that can turn an eye from children being gassed — or express doubt that it
happened — is another poisoned fruit of the Bush years.
To which he replies,
When I read something
like that, I think about the citizens of other countries besides our own.
Are the people of
Norway or Brazil or Angola turning a blind-eye to dead children because they
are "war-weary" or because Bush lied about Saddam Hussein?
There's this idea that
simply by virtue of being born here that citizens of the United States are more
morally responsible for war crimes than anyone else.
If nothing is done
about a chemical attack in Damascus, then we are all somehow complicit,
indifferent, callous, amoral, and unworthy.
But no one says that
about the people who live in Australia or Canada or the Cayman Islands.
Or Russia or Germany or Japan or . . . . .
Welcome to the team, BooMan.
You will be a full-scale isolationist when you reject talk
of a duty of rescue and denounce the idea, very popular among our rulers, that
we are or should be “the indispensable nation.”
When you can no longer seriously believe “the world will be
a more dangerous place if America is unwilling to ever take unilateral action
to protect international norms,” or concern yourself much about it without first
asking, “for whom?”
Without shame.
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