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I read it. As far as I could tell you were saying that intervention was sometimes worthwhile because the Soviets are evil?

I'm not sure I got it either. As an argument for interventionism it was poor.




I don't know how you got any of that from my comment. I'm quite explicitly not arguing in favor of interventionism, nor am I arguing that Soviets were evil. I'm making a metaargument that criticisms of US interventionism must compare US interventionism with Soviet interventionism; it's insufficient to say that US interventionism is worse than no interventionism because the latter wasn't a plausible option. So yeah, it's a shitty argument for interventionism because it's not an argument for interventionism. ;)




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