they be bad, so we can be badder...

[frank scott]

"...You missed my point, which was to show that you were attempting to
hold
the US to a higher normative standard of justification regarding the
intervention in the affairs of another country than, say, you hold
Iraq's justification or lack thereof, in the invasion of Kuwait..."

um...it was wrong for iraq to attack kuwait..okay? but it was even more
wrong for the US to attack iraq... why? because we are americans, not
iraqis or kuwaitis, and  are responsible for us, not them...

these points about shared evil from the ivory towers  have meaning, but
only to dwellers in those towers...

since we have no control over our own attackers, the TDs compare us with
the evil "them"...because of the immaterial weakling "us"???

fs