Paul Edwards

It is YOU that is the enemy of mankind. You are trying to attack liberal democracies instead of dictatorships. Anyway, we have irreconcilable views, s...

That stopped many years ago. You may as well say you want to invade China to stop foot-binding. I'm interested in current violations of human rights, ...

Australia also has the "best technology" we know of - democracy and freedom of speech. So does the UK. No need for a military intervention in any of t...

Murdoch has freedom of speech like everyone else in America. If you wish to counter his message you are free to do so in the free marketplace of ideas...

Start afresh to create what exactly? They already have democracy and freedom of speech. You'll end up where you started. I'm all for a realistic plan ...

This is in fact the world we live in. Communists will attempt to "liberate" capitalists if they see the opportunity to do so. Our ancestors have alrea...

And I hadn't heard a single Afghan call for armed intervention in 2001 either. But 87% of them secretly harbored such a desire. 1. It needs to be expa...

I don't believe in evacuating the entire population of a country because of a crappy government. I believe that if the government is so crappy it shou...

BTW, don't forget that 87% of Afghans supported foreign military intervention. We don't have data from a liberated Thailand.

Absolutely I have considered that. Those Thais are my enemy, who think they have the right to suppress the freedom of speech of my allies. I don't rea...

And any innocent deaths in that fight are the responsibility of the Thai government for refusing to surrender to our Thai allies. It will be the last ...

You're asking individual Thais to be willing to risk more than a decade in jail, or maybe being mowed down by automatic weapons, in order to liberate ...

Oh, and I don't want sanctions on Thailand either. I don't want the protesters to have to pointlessly suffer like everyone else. Just a quick liberati...

You'll need to be specific about which bit you didn't understand. I know it's good stuff because it was good enough to flip a Russian, after months of...

The same thing preventing you from reading my research?

Because you and they should be reading MY research, which concludes that the US is the greatest force for freedom in the world, even on a per-capita b...

Read what I wrote. It's totally accurate.

So you've gone from not being able to tell the difference between good and bad, to not being able to recognize the greatest force for freedom in the w...

It would be good if people could see that it's Pax Free World rather than just an American venture. And this is already known by the name "Democratic ...

Ok, I'm not against doing something to address such issues, but I don't know how to solve that problem. Note that under capitalism, sometimes monopoli...

How many GiB of RAM did your computer have 40 years ago? We've had massive improvements in standard of living thanks to our capitalist economy. Note a...

It hasn't been failing. It's the best system we actually know of. Any time someone tries out a different system it only ever makes things worse. Your ...

Part of the comprehensive response to 9/11 is to get people like you to stop running the same absurd social experiment on multiple countries at the sa...

The CIA equivalent here is "ASIO". And no, I don't trust ASIO to respond properly to the rape of Iraqi women, or indeed to Americans jumping out of sk...

Let me know when you think Iraqi women being raped by their own government and Iraqi men having their tongues cut out is a serious issue worth address...

So let's discuss creating these things so that there is a contract in place to make everyone care about Iraqi women being raped by their own governmen...

Hi Hippyhead. Thanks for the kind words. Like someone else said, we should start a website together. But you haven't responded to my PM.

I said before that I subscribe to NATO's ideology of "freedom", but "freedom" is quite vague. Some people think "freedom" is "communist dictator". So ...

Note that the "peace conference" currently taking place in Qatar is a debate between Muslims over what "Islam" even means, and is a very appropriate r...

So long as the funding to the ANA is not cut, they should be able to manage with or without international boots on the ground. It would be good if the...

I've been thinking about this some more, and I think that when the US acts as part of a coalition, it would seem to be a pure ideological movement. An...

It's a ridiculously light touch required to have a democracy instead of a dictatorship in the Philippines. I think it's the best intervention ever. EC...

Well the subject of this thread is "liberal imperialism". Is that classified as an attempted replacement and do you think it works well? What do you t...

"Says the person with the NATO flag avatar." Yes, but I consider NATO to represent the *ideology* of secular capitalist liberal democracy (aka "free w...

Correction. Ideological groupings are appropriate. E.g. anti-rapists.

I think there is a problem with people identifying as "Russian" or "American". It makes as much sense as "Northern Hemispheran". Being proud to be a n...

Or to put it a different way - the US took the lead in winning the Cold War. Something which the whole world should be thankful for. If you have any c...

The likely outcome was that Iraq would be converted from an enemy dictatorship to an allied democracy, which is what happened. You talk as if you can ...

Then you cannot call the police when you see a rape occurring outside your house. The police might hit a pedestrian when responding to the call. Again...

Any SWAT team that wants to convert a dictatorship into a democracy is OK. Like Senegal liberating Gambia. So long as they don't deliberately target t...

Contracts come with escape clauses. Shouldn't you be seeking to extricate yourself from this contract, now that you realize it allows Saddam to chop o...

I didn't sign any such thing, so my moral code is not dependent on the UN Charter. Is yours? Not all parties consented to being raped by Saddam's goon...

Ok, thankyou. So it depends on how much force is required to respond to the rape call. What if some terrorists have taken people in a building hostage...

YOU should have the high moral ground. YOU should have derived a philosophy even superior to that of the US. What did YOUR moral philosophy say should...

What moral/philosophical code introduces the concept of a "country" where a previous strategy becomes invalidated?

Even in the absolute worst case, that Bush only went to war because Iraq had the best sunflower seeds and he thought he could steal them, why didn't Y...

"I don't think intervening in other countries is analogous to helping an individual here." Why not? What moral code or philosophical argument says tha...

Would you also go for pacifism/non-intervention if you saw a woman being raped in your street? Or are women in your street more important than Iraqi w...

Yes, the US has been incredibly generous. Instead of lashing out after 9/11, they turned around and freed 52 million people from state-slavery, and di...

YOU should have supported a war to free them, as I did. What stopped YOU from trying to help the Iraqis? Is it because they are brown? Billions of peo...