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[quote user="M-la-maudite"]N/S Korea War was not humanitarian intervention, nor ever claimed to be such; it was part of the cold war, right?[/quote] Yes, you are right, Korea was about stopping the spread of communism. [quote user="M-la-maudite"]Not sure whether you can find an analysis of the issue from one of the Mises Institute
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[quote user="ViennaSausage"] Supply Side: utilizes incentives income tax breaks capital gains tax breaks [/quote] I wouldn't consider tax breaks as governement intervention. I consider it more like pure happyness.
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[quote user="Fephisto"] 'war' for 'humanitarianism' Isn't that a distinct contradiction in terms? Like saying 'war' for 'peace' or something? (or 'mandatory volunteering') [/quote] Not necessarily. As mentioned before Hotel Rawanda makes a convincing case that Clinton could have easily stoped the
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[quote user="M-la-maudite"]Besides, as all recent examples have shown, so-called "humanitarian" intervention is actually worsening the situation of the people it is supposed to defend.[/quote] Is there an article/book on this site showing evidence of this? It seems for example that S-Korea is doing alot better than N-Korea, for example
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I like Thomas Wood, if you are interested in US history. Also, you might want to check you local library, mine had selected titles from many of the authors suggested above.
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What is the government's role under Supply-Side economics? All I hear about is Keynesian, which is basically demand-side.
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I listened to several lectures from the Imperialism: Enemy of Freedom lecture series. I was disappointed that there wasn't a clear refutation of common reasons given to justify war in the current political climate--namely humanitarianism and, to a lesser extent, non-proliferation of WMD's. The movies Hotel Rwanda and Sum of all Fears , for example