# The role of the U.S. military and moral nation building

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [March 2, 2007, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-role-of-the-u-s-military-and-moral-nation-building/394323 "2007-03-02T17:47:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-role-of-the-u-s-military-and-moral-nation-building/394323/21 "2007-03-09T15:13:24Z")

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[QUOTE=Quartz]  
They’re still necessary.

I’m sorry to shatter your Panglossian view.  
[/QUOTE]

Your assertion was that the U.S. (or, by implication, any state) has the **right** to interfere in other countries’ governments simply because it has a self-interest in doing so. You still haven’t made an ethical case for that (and the concept of a “right” is meaningful in only two contexts: ethics and law).

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