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I only support military action when it's related to defending my nation and its immediate allies, for a few reasons:

(1) There is no such thing as a humanitarian military expedition; groups that lobby for such expeditions invariably have a motive, a realpolitik motive. They simply dress their expeditions up in the language of human rights, a current example being the sabre rattling against Syria, which is largely promoted by Sunni interests (see, Saudi Arabia) and Likudniks.

(2) Those crying out for such intervention either (1) invert the relationship between a society's superstructure & base, and/or (2) believe we can radically change these nations via some sort of nation building-lite. How people can believe this in the face of empirical failures such Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam, (etc.), is beyond me.

(3) I believe our values our unique to our people, and that exporting them via guns & bombs is another form of imperialism, which offers no tangible benefits to the exporter.


...for those wondering what I was referring to by superstructure, see:

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