Dec

30

Derb’s FAQ

Filed Under Miscellany 

If you haven’t read John Derbyshire’s FAQ piece at National Review Online quit mucking around and go read it already!

I will let you enjoy it but want to quote one Q&A as a taste:

Q: Don’t you know that we supported Iraq in the Iran-Iraq War, and supplied them with intelligence?
A: Again: So what? People keep telling me this as if it were an argument against striking Iraq. Look: If I perceive it to be in our national interest to be chummy with some rattletrap dictatorship on a Tuesday; and if, the following Thursday, I perceive it to be in our national interest to carpet-bomb that same country, on what grounds can I be faulted? Betraying a friend? “Countries don’t have friends, they have interests.”

True. Classic Derb. Read the whole thing.

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One Response to “Derb’s FAQ”

  1. Brian Griffin on December 30th, 2002 7:30 pm

    A classic case of the ends justifying the means. Principle has no meaning? Not even a little?

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