Maggie's Farm

Re forceful intervention in the world. Barone, as quoted in a piece at Betsy:

Democrats like Biden and Feingold seem to want the United States to abide by children’s playground rules. It’s selfish when you intervene to help yourself, but it’s acceptable when you intervene to help others. It’s egotistical when you do things alone, but it’s commendable when you play well with others. But those rules aren’t much help when a child molester stalks the playground. Sometimes you have to act alone and act out of self-interest to prevent evil people from doing evil things.

It is so basic that one would not think that this needed to be said - but it does.