Picking Up in the Middle of the Argument...

[Urbane Guerrilla]

V, I like you for things you do when you're not giving me a hard time. That said, just what is the "it" you think I should get? Generally it sounds like leaving bad governance alone that it may the more conveniently make extra trouble for the rest of us.

Crummy foreign policy -- helps antidemocrats win wars with us, and that is purely stupid, as well as wasting lives. Also stupid, no?

It's unduly difficult to make democracy if the totalitarians are organized, motivated, and armed. Why can't you get it that I understand this to be a two-step process? It's remove the threat, then construct the democracy. It helps everything if the threat removal has been sufficient. So, we should at least disorganize and demotivate the anti-democrats, as disarming alone isn't a thorough enough solution.

When, V, are you ever going to get that it isn't, and by definition cannot be, evil to remove oppressive, totalitarian governance? Augustine of Hippo figured it out before the friggin' DARK AGES!! What is your major malfunction, son?? Just how do you explain not understanding this??? Can you explain it?

I don't think you can manage it to someone of better moral understanding than you're showing. All unknowing, you shall reveal only your terrible error.

I've seen un-democracies. It's left an impression: even the ones that aren't materially too bad have to go -- by the cross or the sword.

Sure, call me a fanatic if you'd like -- it'd be with some justice. It's just better to be my kind of fanatic than your kind, see?