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Thread #60534 Message #968871
Posted By: Teribus
19-Jun-03 - 04:39 AM
Thread Name: BS: First Iraq, now Iran. Then North Korea
Subject: RE: BS: First Iraq, now Iran. Then North Korea
Fair question TIA:
"Now, all we're asking is that everyone......look at the world, look at America, ask themselves whether the founding fathers and mothers would approve, give an HONEST (not partisan) answer"
I doubt if they would dissaprove, taking into account that the founding fathers (were there any founding mothers?) you are referring to are those who wrote the declaration of independence and the constitution. Who firmly believed in the principle of what can be taken by force can be justifiably held, whose idea of freedom meant freedom of some but not others (many signatories were slave owners), whose ideas of equality applied only to themselves - certainly not to their slaves or to the indigenous population of the land they occupied.
By their (founding fathers) yardstick, not only would they approve, they'd be utterly amazed at the restraint being exercised.