[NYTr] NYTimes perfect letter: "bombing for humanity"

[All the News That Doesn't Fit]

sent by Jane Franklin - Oct 7, 2007

Every once in a while, there comes a perfect political statement, and
this letter (below) is one of those.

Siempre,
Jane Franklin
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jbfranklins


THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2007

To the Editor:

Roger Cohen engages in excessive parsing when he tries to distinguish 
"neocons" from "liberal interventionists."

He seems to be asserting that liberal interventionists are good because
they advocate use of American force for humanitarian purposes while
neocons are bad because they advocate use of force to expand the
American empire.

The two groups are indistinguishable.

Both subscribe to the jingoistic notion that the United States can 
unilaterally use its military power to intervene in the affairs of
foreign states without authorization from the world community.
International law prohibits the use of force against a sovereign state
except in self-defense or when authorized by the United Nations
Security Council.

The United States should reject both the neocon dream of world
domination and the liberal interventionist philosophy of bombing for
humanity. We must rejoin the world community.

Jerry Wallingford
San Diego, Oct. 4, 2007