{"id":25731,"date":"2017-09-16T08:54:54","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T13:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25731"},"modified":"2017-09-16T08:54:54","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T13:54:54","slug":"liberals-dont-respect-a-nations-sovereignty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25731","title":{"rendered":"Liberals Don\u2019t Respect a Nation\u2019s Sovereignty"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Liberals Don\u2019t Respect a Nation\u2019s Sovereignty<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

When the United States and some of its allies in 2003 invaded and\u00a0destroyed<\/a>\u00a0Iraq on\u00a0false pretenses<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 and without Iraq having ever invaded (much less destroyed) any of the invading countries \u2014 this was actually within the scope of the invaders being liberal countries, because a nation\u2019s sovereignty isn\u2019t at all respected in traditional liberal thought. This also is the reason why some of the same nations invaded and destroyed Libya in 2011, and Syria since 2012. Neither of those two invaded countries had ever invaded \u2014 much less destroyed \u2014 any of their invaders; but, in all of these cases, such invasions were accepted by the populace within each of the invading countries, all of which invading countries considered themselves to be liberal nations. Why do liberals (and not\u00a0only<\/em>\u00a0conservatives) so routinely accept barbaric aggressions by their own country? Here is the reason (and it needs to be read slowly and carefully, in order to become understood, because what follows is densely packed with meaning; the subject here is sufficiently deep to reach the core of things, like drilling through hard rock \u2014 it\u2019s necessarily slow going):<\/p>\n

A nation\u2019s sovereignty means that the residents in a land possess the ultimate authority over that land, regardless of what its \u2018owner\u2019 might happen to be: a foreign king, an international corporation, or even a domestic person who is one of the people who live there. Consequently, whereas an authentic revolution by the residents within a country, to overthrow and replace their government \u2014 or else a vote to secede \u2014 is acceptable in the concept of national sovereignty (and is recognized as\u00a0\u201cthe right of self-determination\u201d<\/a>),\u00a0no foreign invasion is<\/em>\u00a0(and this includes any internal invasion to defeat a secession), unless the invasion is authentically a response to a real and present danger of, or else in direct response to, an invasion by the country (or region) that’s being invaded.<\/p>\n

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Liberals Don\u2019t Respect a Nation\u2019s Sovereignty When the United States and some of its allies in 2003 invaded and\u00a0destroyed\u00a0Iraq on\u00a0false pretenses\u00a0\u2014 and without Iraq having ever invaded (much less destroyed) any of the invading countries \u2014 this was actually within the scope of the invaders being liberal countries, because a nation\u2019s sovereignty isn\u2019t at all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4394,442,484,16026,827,862],"class_list":["post-25731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-eric-zuesse","tag-iraq","tag-libya","tag-national-sovereignty","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25732,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25731\/revisions\/25732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}