A rebuttal of the antihumanitarian argument...

"...And the introduction of Moral Perspective Deficiency Disorder (MPDD)

Terrance has graciously responded to my rebuttal of his rebuttal of this post. Sorry for the delay, Terr...I hadn't noticed the response before. I should Technorati myself more often.

Anyway, here's the nut of Terrance's argument:

One of Jason’s links refers to the mass graves found in Iraq. I’ve written about them once or twice before, and I’m always a bit cynical when I see folks from the war party throwing up references to these mass graves as a justification for going into Iraq. I’ve even had one person refer to those buried in the mass graves, saying “those people want us there.” Yet I tend to think that those people might have wanted us there a lot more before they ended up in those mass graves, as opposed riding to the rescue more than 20 years too late.

Terrence's argument, at first glance, seems to be humanitarian. It's not. In practice, it is, in its essence, a fundamentally ANTIHUMANITARIAN position, made all the more objectionable because it cynically tries to clothe itself in humanitarian robes. In reality, it's reall an argument for the sellout."
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This is important as I have encountered many of these arguments in recent days, and I think that Jason does a much better job than me of rehashing all 20 years of history to make his point. Comprehensive yet easy to take in. And of course Jason makes it funny, what more could you ask for.