re: #435 Naso Tang

There is always someone who is harmed more than someone else and, like art, there are different perspectives on what is harm.

We didn’t kill 100,000 civilians in Iraq, for example. We didn’t carpet bomb, or gas cities or deny food. If that many died it was because of what they did to each other.

Regardless of one’s feeling about that war, Iraq is a better place today than before. If it turns out worse in the future it will be because the Iraqi culture is incapable of better, not because of the USA.

Afghanistan is, IMHO, incapable of better.

At least half of Libya is incapable of better.

We should stop pretending that all it takes is elections to create free and mature societies in a global environment.

Really? OK, nevermind then. Forget I said anything.