Comments on: Stepping Back from the Precipice http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2007/12/30/stepping-back-from-the-precipice/ Conservative and Libertarian Intellectual Philosophy and Politics Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:00:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Patrick Mulligan http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2007/12/30/stepping-back-from-the-precipice/comment-page-1/#comment-67911 Patrick Mulligan Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:38:31 +0000 http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2007/12/30/stepping-back-from-the-precipice/#comment-67911 "There was logic to removing Saddam, but there was no precedent. America had never engaged in a preemptive war or any war in which we had not first been attacked. " If you don't count Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, The Persian Gulf War, Rwanda, Somalia, Bosnia, Serbia, Kosovo, Albania... Odd how none of those countries are currently held captive in our American "empire", what with us on a "crusade" of global conquest and all. It'd be nice if any of you anti-war isolationists would bother checking the definition of that word, "empire", before you throw you toss it around so liberally. Here's how dictionary.com defines the word: "1. a group of nations or peoples ruled over by an emperor, empress, or other powerful sovereign or government: usually a territory of greater extent than a kingdom, as the former British Empire, French Empire, Russian Empire, Byzantine Empire, or Roman Empire. 2. a government under an emperor or empress. 3. (often initial capital letter) the historical period during which a nation is under such a government: a history of the second French empire. 4. supreme power in governing; imperial power; sovereignty: Austria's failure of empire in central Europe. 5. supreme control; absolute sway: passion's empire over the mind. 6. a powerful and important enterprise or holding of large scope that is controlled by a single person, family, or group of associates: The family's shipping empire was founded 50 years ago." Doesn't sound much like our excursion in Iraq to me. “There was logic to removing Saddam, but there was no precedent. America had never engaged in a preemptive war or any war in which we had not first been attacked. ”

If you don’t count Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, The Persian Gulf War, Rwanda, Somalia, Bosnia, Serbia, Kosovo, Albania…

Odd how none of those countries are currently held captive in our American “empire”, what with us on a “crusade” of global conquest and all. It’d be nice if any of you anti-war isolationists would bother checking the definition of that word, “empire”, before you throw you toss it around so liberally. Here’s how dictionary.com defines the word:

“1. a group of nations or peoples ruled over by an emperor, empress, or other powerful sovereign or government: usually a territory of greater extent than a kingdom, as the former British Empire, French Empire, Russian Empire, Byzantine Empire, or Roman Empire.
2. a government under an emperor or empress.
3. (often initial capital letter) the historical period during which a nation is under such a government: a history of the second French empire.
4. supreme power in governing; imperial power; sovereignty: Austria’s failure of empire in central Europe.
5. supreme control; absolute sway: passion’s empire over the mind.
6. a powerful and important enterprise or holding of large scope that is controlled by a single person, family, or group of associates: The family’s shipping empire was founded 50 years ago.”

Doesn’t sound much like our excursion in Iraq to me.

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