Snowden Sees Some Victories, from a Distance

Re:Snowden Sees Some Victories, from a Distance by philwelch on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @09:44PM (#9580522)

So are you a pacifist, then?

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Re:Snowden Sees Some Victories, from a Distance by jordigh on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @10:13PM (#9580587)

I'm not sure. Maybe. But I certainly don't believe the US's warmongering is defensive.

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Re:Snowden Sees Some Victories, from a Distance by philwelch on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @10:35PM (#9580641)

I never said that it was, but as recently as the 1940's, the US had a clear-cut moral imperative to engage in war, and that required the US government to hold secrets. (For instance, in my analogy of the amphibious assault, Beachhead B was Normandy and Beachhead A was Pas-de-Calais.)

If your theory of government doesn't allow for all the good things the US government has done in the past century, it's not a credible theory of government.

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