| </span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (castille,)
What about the Soviets? Every single country the Soviets have supported were dictatorships. Poland, Hungary, Rumania, Czechslovakia...hold on a sec. All those countries were controlled by Moscow in an iron fist (ask the Czechs if they remember Russian tanks running their people over).
You ask me not to bring up Cold War facts....but you are doing the same. US supported dictatorships like Vietnam, South Korea, China (under Nationalism), Cuba, etc. Yet all those countries have changed governments ever since.
We can go on and on about the faults of the US - but the fact remains that the United States, irregardless of petty faults, is still better than a lot of other countries.
How many private-owned media are there in Libya? Saddam's Irak? In fact, I recall Germany has less independent media sources than the United States.
However, since you enjoy picking on small faults, then here is a few: people are still dying in the US! Oh no! Evil America hasn't invented immortality yet! Lets go and rant on about human rights! And Americans kill billions of ants and beetles each day! Shocker!<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
Your ignoring the point entirely. So many people hold up the US as some great thing, a beacon of democracy and liberty. Its not, its just as bad as any empire, including the Soviet one, the british one or the french one.
We're not saying its better or worse than the USSR, were just trying to demystify it, so people can see it how it really is.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill |