Communism and the Soviet Union that can claim the... great distinction(!!!) of being simultaneously "the most imperialistic and the most oppresive/genocidal regime" that not only the continent of Europe, but also the whole world has ever seen.
Pfft. That's just utter nonsense. After 60 years of communism, there still existed the Kazakh/Turkmen/Ukrainian/Belarussian/Kyrgyz/etc nations in the former Soviet Union. I somehow doubt that the Poles would have survived 60 years of control by Nazi Germany. Indeed you may have noticed that it was only *after* the fall of communism in former Yugoslavia, that the genocidal ethnic cleansing began.
Even Stalin himself allowed a formerly exclusively Russian empire to be divided into separate "ethnic republics" of supposed equal rights and the supposed right to independence. (these rights were never upheld in practice ofcourse, but still that's a vast difference between this and the actions of Nazism which allowed or even demanded the genocidal murder of the "inferior" nations from the "superior" one).
After all, it wasn't Nazi Germany that brought an entire planet to the brink of nuclear holocaust, was it?
*blink* Well, that's just shallow to the point of intentional stupidity, I'm sorry to say. I'm well aware that nuclear bombs hadn't been invented *yet* by Nazi Germany (it's kinda of a major plot-point in the storyline of WW2), but what does technological ability have to do with ideology?
You may as well praise Genghis Khan for not nuking Rome, or praise Iran for not seeking to extend its control over Alpha Centauri.
We have fooled around for too long - let us all put ourselves four-square behind America's war on terror and President Bush's great vision for freedom and democracy around the world.
The Bush administration is (in its actions outside USA borders) a bunch of murderers, torturers and all-around moral cretins, as the latest bunch of Abu Ghraib photos and reports once again reveals, (as if the previous bunch wasn't enough for anyone who hadn't willingly put blinders on).
And internally, Bush's great accomplishment has been to help destroy some of the fundamentals of USA democracy -- like the balance of powers, the idea of accountable government, the idea of the right of a trial-by-jury, etc, etc, etc.
You are drooling over the potential of American power to violently make things happen, and you don't even notice how the moral ground USA once might have held has now forever slipped away from them.
I may still support an American overthrow of Iran or Syria -- I only wish I could feel less dirty for being on the same side as the moral cretins that surround and support Bush.
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Date: 2006-02-16 06:05 pm (UTC)Pfft. That's just utter nonsense. After 60 years of communism, there still existed the Kazakh/Turkmen/Ukrainian/Belarussian/Kyrgyz/etc nations in the former Soviet Union. I somehow doubt that the Poles would have survived 60 years of control by Nazi Germany. Indeed you may have noticed that it was only *after* the fall of communism in former Yugoslavia, that the genocidal ethnic cleansing began.
Even Stalin himself allowed a formerly exclusively Russian empire to be divided into separate "ethnic republics" of supposed equal rights and the supposed right to independence. (these rights were never upheld in practice ofcourse, but still that's a vast difference between this and the actions of Nazism which allowed or even demanded the genocidal murder of the "inferior" nations from the "superior" one).
After all, it wasn't Nazi Germany that brought an entire planet to the brink of nuclear holocaust, was it?
*blink* Well, that's just shallow to the point of intentional stupidity, I'm sorry to say. I'm well aware that nuclear bombs hadn't been invented *yet* by Nazi Germany (it's kinda of a major plot-point in the storyline of WW2), but what does technological ability have to do with ideology?
You may as well praise Genghis Khan for not nuking Rome, or praise Iran for not seeking to extend its control over Alpha Centauri.
We have fooled around for too long - let us all put ourselves four-square behind America's war on terror and President Bush's great vision for freedom and democracy around the world.
The Bush administration is (in its actions outside USA borders) a bunch of murderers, torturers and all-around moral cretins, as the latest bunch of Abu Ghraib photos and reports once again reveals, (as if the previous bunch wasn't enough for anyone who hadn't willingly put blinders on).
And internally, Bush's great accomplishment has been to help destroy some of the fundamentals of USA democracy -- like the balance of powers, the idea of accountable government, the idea of the right of a trial-by-jury, etc, etc, etc.
You are drooling over the potential of American power to violently make things happen, and you don't even notice how the moral ground USA once might have held has now forever slipped away from them.
I may still support an American overthrow of Iran or Syria -- I only wish I could feel less dirty for being on the same side as the moral cretins that surround and support Bush.