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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (118584)11/5/2003 1:33:38 AM
From: frankw1900  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
I'd consider the Khmer Rouge to be Cambodian patriots
I'd consider Stalin to be a Russian patriot, because they defended their countries.

This is interesting. They, like Hussein, saw their countries as extensions of themselves. (And their fellow citizens as disposable breeders). Folk are usually defined as patriots because they love their countries and therefore defend them. That is only an intentional relation not a reflexively intentional one as is seen in the psychopathology of the folk you mention.

By your definition they're patriots, but they're also NFG and the world and their countries would have been much better off if they'd been dead a lot sooner.
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