Gautam wrote:
The right wing dictators who shot innocents were sometimes the only
people who could oppose the real - not fictional - Communist
insurgencies that were threatening to take over these countries.
We should have helped the communist insurgencies overthrow their
dictators but insisted that whatever type of economic structure
their country established, the political structure had to be
democratic. Communism wasn't evil in and of itself, the people that
stopped at nothing in order to try and make an untenable economic
system work were evil. In a democracy, communism dies in short
order. Witness Nicaragua. We should have had more faith in our own
system and less fear of "evil" communism.
Hell, Ho Chi Mihn's heros were Americans. Imagine the pain and
suffering we could have avoided had we backed him rather than the
insufferable idiots we did back (meaning the S.V. leaders, not the
people).
--
Doug
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"Now people stand themselves next to the righteous
And they believe the things they say are true
They speak in terms of what divides us
To justify the violence they do"
Jackson Browne, It Is One
