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Originally Posted by Flasch186
The idea of respecting another countries borders needs to be balanced with that countries willingness to go to war. Funny that the righties seem to use this equation when deciding which countries to run incursions into but dont use the same equation when seeing why Russia felt it ok to fight with Georgia.
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Everybody uses that equation, but its not inconsistent to feel the US is right to go into northwest Pakistan and also that Russia was wrong to go into Georgia. Both are arguable points, I guess, but they can be judged on their own merits, they're completely different situations. And even the individual situations can be broken down - someone can see Russia's point of view, but still don't want them to gain influence for the security of their own country (whether it be the US, or the Ukraine)
And yes, I think McCain is (comically) wrong when he tries to make broad points like, "in the 21st century, soverign nations don't invade other soverign nations" where obviously there's a tipping point where even Michael Moore would support invading a soverign nation (and the tipping point for McCain is of course far lower). Every situation is different.