So maybe we got it all wrong

[The Wizard]

Yeah.. you didn't actually read the article, did you?

The claim is that the Afghan Mullahs did not support Bin Laden, ergo attacking Afghanistan was not justified. It doesn't say the country was ever a Liberal egalitarian paradise.

And my post was a sarcastic rejection of such a preposterous idea. A barbarous regime like that of the Taliban has no right to sovereignty or legitimacy.

The Taliban and Iraq were brought down because it was beneficial to the West. Rwanda, Sudan, North Korea, and Burma are left alone, because there's nothing that will benefit ourselves there.

No, they're left alone because they have friends in high places (Russia and China, anyone?). Afghanistan lost those after 9/11.

And how exactly do you infer from the fact that I was wrong about the Geneva Conventions (something which I admitted) that I have no problem with human rights abuses or selectively apply moral and politically progressive outrage at savage regimes? Have you ever read any posts of mine about any of the countries you've mentioned? No? Then keep quiet.

Well yeah, they are horrible but it's a horrible place, but if this is true it isn't our problem. If they aren't a threat I have no business in their home.

Democracies have business in any oppressor's home. They also have business outside the home of anybody being oppressed. An attitude like yours is cowardly and beneficial to evil regimes across the globe.