GC Conversations: Emani Brought Up Foreign Policy
This is literally just a reply that more easily readable than a Facebook chat. I hope. So my general moral stance on foreign policy is that those who are fortunate should help the less fortunate (not because they may need help one day, but they would indeed want it if they were in such position), within reason. After that, my stance is “paying what you owe”. So one part of that is if allegiances are made with the agreement that they’d help each other out in the future, you have to follow through (unless they’re asking you to do wild shit). A lot of times we think of that like when the US allied with other countries in world wars. Those are the more convenient ones (as the allies are generally safe. The U.S. relationship with the Kurds is more of one that I think best embodies the dynamic in what I mean. We started that partnership in 1962 (after the Kurds were betrayed by…other people…I almost explained all that for no reason). But we’ve left the Ku...