Thatcher and nationalism

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> delong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 09/13/00 12:31AM >>>
>You do not explain why it is "nutso" to consider that it is no business of
>the rest of us what dictators do to their own people.
>But isn't it common among certain types of  pragmatist and "realists" to
>claim that foreign policy ought to be based upon advancing national
>interest? On this view, hardly nutso, what dictators do to their own people
>would be a nation's business only if it impacted significantly on national
>interests...

No man is an island, entire of itself;
Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less,
As well as if a promontory were,
As well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were.
Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind;
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; i
It tolls for thee....

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CB: Trouble is it is easy to imagine this being sung to the "tune" of The White Man's Burden, when it comes from a Yankee like you.


Yankee go home !