Sorry, forgot to attribute this properly 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. Me: 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 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zo.com/~brighto "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
