My opinion, we were choosing sides as a nation and did what we needed to do in order to prevent the expansion of communism through Latin America.
Remember, as a nationalist the interests of the US come first and foremost. If enhanced our security by supporting these douche bags, so be it. We one the cold war, and I think that is due largely in part to the fact that we supported regimes that were anti-communist, even if they didn't have great human rights records. To be honest, I am moving away from using a nations politics as a means to form alliances. I recently listened to an excellent interview of a pentagon China specialist, and he made a lot of sense. While nations like China, India and Iran may not have very much in common with us culturally or politically, they do have a lot in common with us economically. If I am to be true to my country it would now make more sense to align myself with these nations, than it would to alienate them and make them international pariahs. As a child of the 80s I saw communism as a true threat. I think we did what needed to be done to assist in bringing it down. > -----Original Message----- > From: Larry Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 3:23 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: ottoman empire > > > >Yes, btw I was no older than 13 or 14 when he went out of > office, or I would > >have bitched about that as well. > > > >However the U.S. can't be held responsible for the actions of tin pot > >dictators. > > > Even when they funded them and trained their torturers (ie., the > School of the Americas)? How about what happened with Bush Senior > and Iran Contra? > > This country should be held accountable for the actions of "tin > pot dictators" when this country funded, equipped and guided > these petty dictators. Then did the same for their death squads > and bandits after these tin pot dictators were overthrown. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:214567 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
