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Reader Doug Barrett from Edmonton, Canada, suggests that the 9 cases in Nozick’s Tale of the Slave can be expanded upon:

10. They read ‘the Tale of the Slave’ and they are now aware that you feel you are a slave. “We’re sorry you feel that way.” they say. “If you want to, you can go somewhere else and live in a way that you think isn’t slave-ish. Or you can stay with us, and play by our rules, and if you do you are welcome to try to persuade us that you have a better way to live.”

I [Doug Barrett] think once this offer is made, one cannot really claim to be a slave. And continuing further still…

11. You persuade them. “Hey, this living as free individuals is great!” they all say. “By the way, some of us didn’t like being called a 10,000-headed monster. Some of us want to beat you up for that insult.” And they beat you up. Continue reading “Tale of Slave II”

To (some of) my lefty friends: this is why I hate the U.N. Oh yeah, don’t forget the brutal sanctions against Iraq (child death toll: 350,000-530,000) and the weapons inspections (which, the Bush administration frequently and correctly notes, provided the pretext for every bomb dropped on Iraq over the last thirteen years).

FAIR & BALANCED UPDATE: There are worse regimes than the U.N.–Mike Bloomberg’s comes to mind–but scale is important. Bloomberg’s radius of tyranny is small and circumscribed; the U.N.’s is enormous and creeping. Now substitute “Saddam Hussein” for Bloomberg and “U.S. government” for U.N. and you’ve got the gaping hole in liberventionist theory.

Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA) pens that NATO Needs Iraq.

Lantos wants to repeat NATO’s “successes” in Afghanistan, Bosnia, and Kosovo — in Iraq. And, according to Lantos, NATO needs an Iraq deployment to keep it relevant.

“NATO needs Iraq as much as Iraq needs NATO,” says Lantos, who has never met a war he didn’t like.

Just days after Mark Byron’s gorefest, another Instapundit-approved blogger goes berserk. Justin featured this in his column today, but it merits its own blog post. From Healing Iraq (scroll down about 1/3 of the page):

I’m going to repeat it again and everyday:
public trials, public trials, public trials, public trials, public trials, public trials, public trials, public trials, public trials, public trials, public trials, public trials, public trials, public trials, public trials, public trials, public trials, public trials, public trials, public trials, public trials, public trials, public trials, public trials, public trials, public trials, public trials, public trials, public trials, public trials, public trials, public trials, public trials, public trials, public trials, public trials,
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public executions, public executions, public executions, public executions, public executions, public executions, public executions, public executions, public executions, public executions, public executions, public executions, public executions, public executions, public executions, public executions, public executions, public executions, public executions, public executions, public executions, public executions, public executions, public executions, public executions, public executions, public executions, public executions, public executions, public executions, public executions, public executions, public executions,

Those militants don’t understand any language except the language of force. Fuck human rights. Those aren’t humans anyway. We desperately NEED to see some heads rolling. Believe it or not. Theres going to have to be some bloodshed for this to work. Bomb the hell out of Tikrit and Al-Awja. Massacre every last person of Saddam’s tribe. Rape his women. Yeah.

Why all the violence? The lights went out.

Seems to me all of the president’s problems on this UK trip (“They ask questions over there???“) could have been avoided if he had access to news. Now, we all know the president has no time for newspapers, but there must be some way for him to stay informed. Oh, if only the Oval Office had internet access!

The former editor of the Sunday Telegraph on mini-Murdoch:

My disagreements with Conrad have arisen since I stopped working for him. I’ve been critical in the past decade because he’s turned The Telegraph into an American-propaganda and Israel-propaganda sheet which I don’t agree with. I think that neo-conservative, right-wing philosophy which is very much an American phenomenon is very alien [to Britain] and not part of our tradition. I do think his doctrinaire, almost blind support for America in the Iraq war has given The Telegraph a narrowness of vision that makes it a less impressive newspaper than it should be.

As if to assure us of Worsthorne’s correctness, Canadian David Frum chimes in:

For now, let’s just observe that under Black’s leadership, the Daily Telegraph has matured into a truly great newspaper that has inspired and sustained conservative causes in Britain and throughout Europe. If Black is succeeded by new leadership less committed to the ideals and principles of the Daily Telegraph, British conservatism will lose its most eloquent voice – and the Anglo-American alliance, its best friend in the British media.