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The right move is letting countries govern themselves in whatever way they see fit and leaving them alone.

Or would you like to have Iran or Pakistan or whatever intervening in the domestic issues of the West?



This includes not wanting to support or do business with people who look the other way as people get slaughtered. I'm not in Iran, I'm dealing solely with things that enter my ken and therefore become subject to my judgement.

I can't go to a museum, admire the bravery of, say, Sophie Scholl, and then go "ah yes, but at the end of the day it's not really anyone's business", and you cannot both have the dignity of a person who accepts the responsibility they have just by virtue of being human and shut yourself off.

At the end of the day, it's just a rationalization for kicking away the ladder. You don't care what happens to them as long as it doesn't happen to you or people you love. That is what it is, and all it is.


People really do think their nations culture should be imposed everywhere. In reality it doesn't work. See Americas bitter defeat in Afghanistan. Which is now more Islamic and antiwestern than it's ever been


> more Islamic and antiwestern

It's a massive regression from 2002 - 2021, but this is not true. The Taliban has moderated somewhat from 2000 (somewhat), and frankly would be very happy to make tactical deals with the west to help counter ISIS.




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