Surrenderville
Charles Johnson
Sat Nov 30, 2002 at 8:44 am PST • Views: 127
Amir Taheri says it’s time for France to take sides.
Politics, as Aristotle taught over 2000 years ago, is about making a choice, which means taking sides. The subject of ethics is the choice between right and wrong. That of aesthetics is about beauty and ugliness. In politics the choice is between friend and foe. Of course, there would be room for doubt if the United States were to invade Canada, or even Mexico, in pursuit of imperial designs. But a normal person living in an open democratic society should have little difficulty in choosing between the United States on the one hand and Stalin, Kim Il-sung, Ho Chi Minh, Pol Pot, Khomeini and Saddam Hussein on the other.
The same normal person would understand that some regimes must be defeated by force when no other option is available. Hitler had to be removed by force. Had the Vietnamese army not invaded Cambodia, the Pol Pot gang might still be in power. The Tanzanian army did the world a service by invading Uganda and driving Idi Amin into exile. And Slobodan Milosevic would not be in the dock had it not been for the American-led campaign to drive him out of Kosovo.
But in a positive development from Surrenderville, French anti-globalization nutloaf Jose Bove, known for his courageous attacks on McDonalds restaurants and fields of rice, may be headed to prison.
Frank says: