>From: "ARI Media" <davidh at aynrand.org>
>To: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
>Subject: RE: Peaceniks' Motivation
>Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 11:44:56 -0800
>
>Ayn Rand argued that wars are *initiated* by statists. We are responding
>to September 11 and the terrorist threat. From AR:
>"Just as an individual has the right of self-defense, so has a free
>country if attacked."
>
>"Dictatorship nations are outlaws. Any free nation had the right to
>invade Nazi Germany and , today, has the right to invade Soviet Russia,
>Cuba or any other slave pen. Whether a free nation chooses to do so or
>not is a matter of its own self-interest, not of respect for the
>non-existent "rights" of gang rulers. It is not a free nation's duty to
>liberate other nations at the price of self-sacrifice, but a free nation
>has the right to do it, when and if it so chooses."
>
>"There are four characteristics which brand a country unmistakably as a
>dictatorship: one-party rule-executions without trial or with a mock
>trial, for political offenses-the nationalization or expropriation of
>private property-and censorship. A country guilty of these outrages
>forfeits any moral prerogatives, any claim to national rights or
>sovereignty, and becomes an outlaw."
>
>Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia and others fit the bill.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Doug Henwood [mailto:dhenwood at panix.com]
>Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 11:04 AM
>To: davidh at aynrand.org
>Subject: RE: Peaceniks' Motivation
>
>
>ARI Media wrote:
>
>>What's your point?
>
>That Ayn Rand argued that war was for statists. You don't seem
>troubled by that.
>
>Doug