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Re: Let's see how far this goes, then...

Date: 2004-10-18 04:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thekumquat.livejournal.com
Fair enough re first para.
Re second - if the good guys think that what they do is good because they're the good guys, that can lead to worse consequences than the bad guys that everyone was watching closely.

Like Senator McCarthy who was a good American patriot.
Like nice Uncle Joe Stalin, staunch ally of Britain and the US.
Like Saddam Hussein, who was fighting the bad Iranians and was helped by the West.
To mention a few 'good guys' in real life who could have done with being checked earlier.

Re: Let's see how far this goes, then...

Date: 2004-10-18 05:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] beingjdc.livejournal.com
We've been through a period of history when we had to do an awful lot of messy choosing the lesser of two evils. If anything, the choice is clearer now than it has been in over half a century.

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