Hard News: Awful in more than one way
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That SANE guy Dave Gaubatz is being pushed by Melanie Phillips as the person who really, really, truly found where the WMD's in Iraq were The whole story is told by Glenn Greenwald at Salon
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You might call being attacked by Japan "self interest"
weeeell... i kind of took self-defence to also mean self-interest.
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You might call being attacked by Japan "self interest", but I don't think that really captures it fairly
There is a little more to it than that Weston. James raised Nanking before...I suspect it was self interest that allowed the US to suppress footage of this horrific incident to ensure that it didn't interfere with other negotiations taking place at the same time. Japan's rampage thru China largely went without comment, partially because it was not in the USA's best self interest to do or say anything, and China's only real military support came from Stalin until mid 1941. The road to Pearl Harbour was littered with self interest. And indeed it was the Japanese belief that the US had no stomach for a fight, with economic self interest taking policy preference, that led them to the attempted knock out blow on 7th December.
Happily they were wrong.
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The whole story is told by Glenn Greenwald at Salon
it's worth going across to the Malkin link on Glenn's post and reading the frigging comments, along the lines of:
That there is no evidence of WMDs is evidence they were moved...that guy in the NY Sun said so
These people are certifiably nuts. Then again, its not that far from the evidence produced by Bushco for the invasion I guess
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It is a central tenet of the diehard Bushies that the WMD's were smuggled out into Syria. Cunningly they were moved at night so the satelites bathing the area were turned off, or something.There is some ex-Iraqi military guy that is making a living out of speaking to these people and the redoubtable Stephen Hayes keeps the dream alive. It is a fascinating area of study.
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Deborah- you're right, it's game theory, not utilitarianism. WRT moraility: utilitarianism is like democracy- flawed and in need of all manner of work- but still better than the other options...
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