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Originally Posted by Jake";p="
There is a country called Scumeria. Scumeria has never invaded its neighboring countries. It doesn't support terrorists aboad. Scumeria is sitting on an ocean of oil reserves. It is a horrible dictatorship. It meticulously follows international law regarding it's relations with other countries. However, inside its borders, it kills political enemies of the state by the hundred thousand. It enforces it's rule by torture chambers, rape rooms, midnight raids by the police - all the things dictatorships do. Of course the people have zero rights in Scumeria.
Now the question is, what if anything should other countries do about Scumeria?
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Sounds a lot like china. ( Edit: Oh, apotropoxy beat me too it. saudi arabia is an even better comparison. I guess china doesn't have oil? but saudi arabia does support terrorists... also i'm not sure either country has rape rooms but i could be wrong. )
The only good reason for invading Scumeria would be to take their oil, but i'm not the type of person to support that. So, in my opinion, absolutely nothing should be done.
Furthermore I don't agree with nawbut that we should impose sanctions, other than the basic "don't trade them anything that can be remotely used as a weapon"
Jake, have you seen my thread about zimbabwe? Zimbabwe is NOT hypothetical, but I would be interested in hearing your opinion.
http://www.politicalforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=23173
You'd be amazed at how many countries there are in the world already that are worse off than this scumeria of yours. It's not our job to fix them.