At 03:52 PM 5/26/01 -0400, John D. Giorgis wrote:
>At 07:49 PM 5/26/01 +0200 J. van Baardwijk wrote:
> >>When they attempted to throw the Soviets out - in 1956 in Hungary, and
> >>in 1968 in Czechoslovakia - the were _massacred_ by Soviet tanks. You
> >>have yet to respond to this point.
> >
> >Gautum, how long have you and I been on this list? You really should know
> >by now my opinion about such things. The fact that I question American
> >politics, and don't treat capitalism and "The American Way" as gospel,
> >doesn't mean I think believe everything the Soviet Union does was right.
>
>And we also know that your repeatedly assert a moral equivalence between
>the United States and the USSR.
>
>I know a number of people accuse me of seeing things in black-and-white,
>but your position Jeroen, seems to be:
>The USSR did some bad things.
>The USA did some bad things.
>Therefore, the USA was no better than the USSR, and should have recognized
>that the USSR had the same moral rights as the USA.
Didn't we have this discussion a few months ago?
-- Ronn! :)
