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Originally Posted by spence
No code, it should be quite obvious.
Bush set forth a long-term security strategy based on the assumptions that democratic states are generally more stable, all people want to be free, and that the world "needs" our leadership to help them get there.
You had not mentioned Bush's policy. No way I can get that from "It's about the obvious duplicity that undermines our real objectives."
I think we'd all agree that the rule of law is a cornerstone element to a stable, democratic society.
By compromising our own values, or violating our own laws or International treaties, we tarnish the very basis of our own argument.
The rule of law IN GENERAL is "a cornerstone element" of our society. But not all SPECIFIC laws are condusive to that stability. Some laws are useless or outdated remnants. Some are rules that benefit special interests at the expense of others. Some are just stupid. And some can be destructive. We certainly have no international treaty with stateless terrorists. And the "rule of law", as I have said previosly in this thread, is not our highest principle. Our highest principle is to exist in the manner in which we were created--to preserve our life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. And we neither compromise that, nor tarnish what we did in Irag by CIA type interrogations of those who wish to destroy the democracy we helped to establish in that country.
This is glaringly obvious to those who we wish to influence, and therefore quite counter productive.
-spence
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What is glalringly obvious to others, is that we stubbornly remain the powerful, rich, free society, and they remain jealous. Although, those now "running" our country may wish to change that.