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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR
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To: Tadsamillionaire who wrote (7250)2/11/2003 1:02:45 PM
From: Thomas M.   of 25898
 
Our nation has never "gone to War' to free a dictator or put a dictator into power.

First, let's note that you put quotes around those words, even though I didn't say them. Here is what I said:

"majority of our foreign interventions have been to defend dictators against their people"

Just to pick an example at random, the Vietnam War began in the 1950s with our defense of the dictator Diem, helping him suppress the most popular political party of the area, the National Liberation Front. In other words, we were defending a dictator against his people. During the course of the war, we supported a series of dictators and military juntas, but never a popular political group. Eventually, we killed several million people in our bid to keep Indochina from achieving self-determination and independence.

As for your statement (assuming it is true), the fact that we were able to overthrow democracies and install dictatorships without a full scale war is hardly a sensible defense of our anti-democratic foreign policy.

Tom
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