Who else is going too? We have a
responsibility{why?because we make wealth?} supposedly to the world because you all almost let it go to shit once. We will continue to act in the best interests of the world as a whole providing we can understand what the best interests are, but the constant onslaught of other countries trying to get us to accept their failed ideology is beginning to change this country into something that it shouldn't be.
It is time for everyone to realize that true capitalism
{lassiez -faire} is the only system gear for the rational life of a man. Only a rational , productive, independent man can make the world as it is today with it's high standard of living & constant progress with technology upgrades which is stolen at every chance by every one else trying to keep up. On to the question though which I think miss rand answers perfectly.
Dictatorship nations are outlaws. Any free nation had the right to invade Nazi Germany and, today, has the right to invade soviet Russia, Cuba or any other slave pen. Whether a free nation chooses to do so or not is a matter of it's own self-interest, not of respect for the nonexistent "rights" of gang rulers. It is not a free nations duty to liberate other nations at the price of self-sacrifice, but a free nation has the right to do it, when and if it so chooses.
This right, however, is conditional. Just as the suppression of crimes does not give the policeman the right to engage in criminal activities, so the invasion & destruction of a dictatorship does not give the invader the right to establish another variant of a slave society in the conquered country.
A slave country has no national rights, but the individual rights of its citizens remain valid, even if unrecognized, and the conqueror has no right to violate them. Therefore, the invasion of an enslaved country is morally justified only when and if the conquerors establish a free social system, that is, a system based on the recognition of individual rights. What we are trying to do in Iraq & Afghanistan
Since there is no fully free country today, since the so called "free world" consists of various "mixed economies," it might be asked whether every country on earth is morally open to invasion by every other. The answer is : No. There is a difference between a country that recognizes the principle of individual rights, but does not implement it fully in practice, and a country that denies it and flouts it explicitly.
All "mixed economies" are in a precarious state of transition which, ultimately, has to turn to freedom or collapse into dictatorship.
There are four characteristics which brand a country unmistakably as a dictatorship: one party rule -- executions without trial or with a mock trial, for political offenses -- the nationalization or expropriation of private property -- and censorship.
A country guilty of these outrages forfeits any moral prerogatives, any claim to national rights or sovereignty, and becomes an outlaw. Italics from Ayn Rand : The virtue of selfishness : collectivized "rights" (1963)
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