And "troops on the border" has little relevance to what made them stand out as monstrous oppressors. If they had troops on the border but didn't have death camps, concentration camps, gulags, etc., lack of freedom, mass murder by the state, and so on, they would not be remembered as the most evil leaders of the 20th century.
There are lots of things in common with these people and many other countries. The US, USSR, China, and Germany all had/have armies and navies, there all larger than average countries in both population and size (Germany not as much so, but still its far from small), they all had/have traffic laws, and post offices and farmland and hospitals. There are all sorts of things that the US and its government have/do today that the other countries had or did back than. Saying "Hitler also did this", or "Stalin supported that", or China under Mao had this" doesn't mean much in isolation. Even totalitarian nations do many things that are not wrong in the midst of all the abuse and oppression and death.
The US isn't supporting abuse, oppression and government caused death on a mass scale. That the core point. If bring superficial and irrelevant similarities are supposed to be important I suppose we would have to include that Bush and Hitler are just the same because they are both men, or that Canada is going to starve millions of its own citizens because like the USSR during the man made famines it is a country with a lot of territory. |
