Re:Venezuelan Opposition Leaders Detained at Gunpoint in Raids
by dsfyu404ed on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @09:34AM
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>prolonged civil war is worse than either side winning outright. Order over chaos.
That really depends on what timescale you care about and who's side you're on.
Would Korea be better off if the US never got involved? What about if the Chinese never stepped in?
What if the US had tried harder to prop up the Shah in Iran? What if the US hadn't backed Saddam in the 80s?
What if the US had never backed the Mujaheddin against the soviets? Backing them caused a lot of bad stuff but bleeding the USSR to death may have averted continuing the cold war and another Vietnam somewhere else in the world decades later.
Time only goes one way. You never get do-overs. You just get to make the best decision you can for the current situation.
That really depends on what timescale you care about and who's side you're on.
Would Korea be better off if the US never got involved? What about if the Chinese never stepped in?
What if the US had tried harder to prop up the Shah in Iran? What if the US hadn't backed Saddam in the 80s?
What if the US had never backed the Mujaheddin against the soviets? Backing them caused a lot of bad stuff but bleeding the USSR to death may have averted continuing the cold war and another Vietnam somewhere else in the world decades later.
Time only goes one way. You never get do-overs. You just get to make the best decision you can for the current situation.
I'm also in the camp of "we're not world police"