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Who are we to Judge?

So they execute people for blaspheming Islam in Afghanistan.
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So what? It’s their country and that’s what they believe; who are we to tell them what to do?  In the US we allow child-rapists to roam free. We let double murderers off the hook, and call it entertainment. We allow people to blaspheme whatever they want, and call it free speech. Those are our ways, the American way; “viva Las Vegas”, and all that crap.

In other words, we have our own problems and stupidity is displayed in our justice system every day. The idea that we are some how superior to these “primitive” cultures and can tell them what to do is asinine. I used to believe that too, but now I realize how absurd it really is. For example, Secretary Rice says,

“I do think that the Afghans understand that there are some international norms that need to be respected”

International norms? Do these International norms supersede a country’s constitution? Do they over-rule their religion? Where is this “planet earth constitution of norms”? When was it written? I never signed up.

Do we really think we can tell other countries that they may not enforce their laws because we don’t like them? This is the way we Americans like to act, as if we are God’s gift to the world of politcal idealism.  I am not a leftist, anti-American, liberal by any means; I am a Christian conservative, but I am tired of this foreign policy which makes it ok for us to tell other countries what they can and cannot do.

A long time ago, Americans got tired of being told what to do by a foreign power and we stopped it by declaring our independence and fighting a war over it (cir. 1776). Now, we force ourselves on other countries much like the British empire did 200 plus years ago. We need to cut it out and mind our own business.