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To: frankw1900 who wrote (49280)	10/4/2002 9:39:15 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) of 281500

It went retrograde sometimes in the cold war It went retrograde during the Cold War primarily because progressive forces almost inevitably allied themselves with Communists, or else were extirpated by Communists. It's not like there were three choices - reactionary repression vs. progressive democracy vs. Communism. There were almost always only two - a repressive non-Communist government or a repressive Communist government. Batista OR Castro. Chiang OR Mao. Somoza OR the Sandinistas. The Communist Party line was that their bastards were better than our bastards, but history showed that to be vast, steaming piles of horse exhaust. Every place the Communists took over, and I mean EVERY place, they killed the progressives and those who wanted democracy, and instituted totalitarian autocracies. But we still hear it today, on this thread, e.g., the argument that we were wrong to support the Afghani mujahideen because the Communists were better than the Taliban. Hey, guys, the Taliban wasn't one of the choices back then.

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