Why do I blanch, you might ask, at the idea of the coalition committing brutality in Iraq, but I am all for the French using brutality to put down Muslim riots? (And indeed, were it happening here, I would be screaming to the hills for someone to shoot the rioters).
Because in Iraq, we are the foreigners.
In France, they are the foreigners.
Jed Eckert explained the principle best:
Matt Eckert: Tell me what's the difference between us and them!
Jed Eckert: Because we live here!
Murray Rothbard endorsed this concept of the difference, and so do I.
That is all.
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