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From: Dave Parnas <parnas@qusunt.cas.mcmaster.ca> David Morgan ends his letter to the Globe and Mail with some rhetorical questions about Chechnia and Turkey and their repression of independence movements. He need not go so far from home. Does anyone remember the Puerto Rico liberation movement? The U.S. moved soldiers to Puerto Rico to suppress it. How would it react if told to remove those troops. We also need not look so far back in time. We can ask if NATO had the right to bomb Indonesia for sending troops to East Timor? If so, why was it not done? The only way to avoid being hypocrites is to be willing to live by the rules we want to impose on others. If we want to restrict how Serbia can react to provocations by the KLA, we must be willing to accept similar restrictions on our behaviour and that of our allies. If we can find a set of acceptable rules, the world will be better off because we found them. If, instead, we simply make ad hoc rules and apply them when convenient, the world is moving down a slippery slope to anarchy and war. David L. Parnas
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