Posted by
Phantom Republic on Friday, November 21, 2008 8:34:06 PM
Have you ever wondered what a liberal has in mind when they bear the banner "Save Darfur?" To be as concise as possible, this implies an intervention to stop atrocities of warlords. So what intervention do they have in mind? A protest? Diplomacy? I haven't any disposition to make light of a legitimate abomination that gives good light to why we keep the term "evil" around. What's a liberal to do? Absolutely nothing. They can't. They will not. The UN has all the power it needs to assert force with support from the US. Why don't they? Because it creates a standard of righteousness which equates to self-righteousness and hypocrisy in popular world opinion. Also, because the best solution is militias. Militias are inherently associated with rage and mobs and guns because of rhetoric of fools. And when weapons are distributed to a population, a tyrant will rise up out of the population and persecute with the 9mm he's been issued. It's a dysfunctional self-defeating screenplay. I say, give the poor people weapons. Arm them, and allow them to defend their wives and their children, their parents, their friends. If they decide to abuse the bearing of arms, let it be on them. By omitting such an empowerment as a civilization, we've exercised a judgment on them and given the tyrants who've already offended a free pass.