All hail to the sovereign nation-state. No doubt, the US had no business interfering with the Axis powers in World War II, too. After all, the concentration camps were "beyond the borders."
Of course, in this psuedo-anti-imperialist argument, Yoshie manages to lose entirely the point of the original letter and the use of the 82nd airborne, as well as the role of the theory of sovereign state rights in supporting Jim Crow segregation -- their argument was exactly analagous to the one she makes for Kosov_a_, since they saw Arkansas as every bit as much a sovereign state as she sees Greater Serbia.
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