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Originally posted by bilmore
Pol Pot had a good life, at least.
(If you want to speak of the millions in VN and C that died in the purges, intentional starvations, and mass cleansings in both countries, keep going. But I'd walk away from this argument were I you.)
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Much like Chile under Pinochet, Iran under the Shah, Iraq under Hussein, Somalia under whoever is in charge this week....
Totalitarians occupy far too broad a band on either side of the spectrum and the US has a long record of supporting the ones who help our intererests and subverting the ones who don't. I am not defending or condemning the US here. I am simply pointing out that neither the right nor the left has a monopoly on terror, torture, and genocide as a means of maintaining power.
We are neither Satan nor the World's Humanitartian Supercop. I don't have an answer to the cynicism so transparent in our exercise of power in favor of our national interest and our willingness to let millions die when we have othing to gain. But the claims of moral superiority on both sides are getting a bit tiresome.
