Sorry homie, you can't have it both ways. You can't claim you're pro-freedom and then back a dictatorship which does everything but support freedom. You can't say you "rebuilt" a democracy, after having supported a dictatorship. You can't even claim "well, our dictatorships weren't as bad" and then say that others were. You can't play victim and say "Well! They did it too!"
So, your weasel like attitude about the Cold War aside, my point is basically this: Both the US and the USSR were camps of economic influence. Nothing more nothing less. Both benefited by supporting dictatorships at the cost of millions of people enslaved by either pro-USSR or pro-US dictatorships. The entire Cold War, right vs. wrong mentality is dependent on which side of the field you're on. The rest of us see it as being about two powers seeking to benefit economically from other nations and not giving one ounce of a **** about "freedoms". :shrug:
Gosh, Man, I am so so sorry, I was totally unaware that there were some guidelines that say somewhere, apparently, that you get to establish a prohibition against me telling the situation as it actually is, not how “we” [read: you] would "want" or like it to be.
Diopter problems perhaps? Cogency complications?
Wrong. So truly utterly bewilderingly wrong.
You
most certainly can do exactly that. Hell, we did it. Plain for anybody, any simpleton included, or at least ones that come without ideological blinders, to see. I mean, from every single aspect I can readily think of you are wrong. Who told you… or more to the point,
why are you trying to tell me that I, we, cannot look at some dictatorships as being worse than others? Mao's was worse than Stalin's which was worse than Hitler’s which was worse than Pol Pot's all of which were way way worse than Franco or Marcos [ you mentioned the Aquinos, didn’t say which one so assume both, but I would presume you might actually have been talking the Marcos, but doesn’t really matter as neither were near as bad as any of those lefty regimes mentioned ].
If your premise were to be played out to the end, we didn’t start off perfect, and if we cannot even attempt a transition from our imperfection, then we are not allowed, by your calculus, to even improve on an ongoing basis? To evolve, to “progress”?
Too bad, thank goodness we don't always listen to y'all, cause we have already done it.
So, might that be just plain stupid talk, by any slim chance?
And,
no way….
nooooo way. There is actually [ again,
noooooo way ] actually an economic aspect to this? OMG, I just realized for the very first time, ever, in my life, since I was born, wowwww… economics is in
EVERYTHING. So, I guess It might be pretty easy to weave an economic aspect in there, eh… since it really cannot be absent no matter what? Yeah, so what, we could not be other than two economic camps, especially since both systems are different, both are ecomomic [ communism combining political and economic ]... so again, what is your major point other than the absolute obvious?
What is funny is that your side wants to hold our side to this white glove standard and you know there will be dust and dirt there when you touch the real world. Your side, the left, has swept an unbelievably large pile, a bulbous billowing barge load, under the rug...that does not even come close to hiding it to those of us who look even slightly in that direction.
And yanno, I really admire you folks that put yourselves out there, defend the indefensible with such a stoic straight face…. Wait, sorry, now I cannot really say that with a straight face…
The bottom line is, most everything that comes from the left causes more misery. Don’t blame me, I am just the messenger. Below that bottom line is this… your side never seems to see what your side does so wrong, deadly wrong, but you see every blemish on ours… and, more importantly, you like to sacrifice good and better on the altar of perfection… and we already know what kind of talk that is.