I think if you go back and read my last post you'll find that you don't have to take it as a defense of the US gong to war in Iraq. I meant the words far more generally than that. You read in a defense of using the military instrument of power in Iraq, but I was really trying to get you to agree that it isn't immoral to use the economic instrument of power (sanctions) in order to influence the human rights record of another nation, such as China.
Sorry you took offense.
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Actually, I think sanctions are usually a lot more immoral than military power. They don't do anything but piss the populace off and cement the hold of the state over them by giving the state an excuse to keep up a state of emergency. The people who get the shaft aren't the people in power, that's for sure. So, they do nothing to make them step down.
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