I'm curious about the distinction between "authoritarian" and "totalitarian" regimes. No you're not, you are looking for debating points...
The United States supported plenty of regimes that survived or have become more democratic. Would it have helped to have let them become part of the Soviet bloc?
I used to almost laugh at the absurdity of it all A person of such superior attainments should have run for higher office, or entered the State Department. Think of all of those wasted decades when it was all so obvious! How could you have left them in the dark?...
It is an axiom of foreign policy that one deal with the regime in place. In a situation where that regime is under siege, one is left with the decision to offer aid or let it fall. Since the successor regimes would have been overtly anti- American and, in many instances, allied with our greatest rival, the choice was rarely hard. You talk as if we created the regimes, or as if we eliminated the democratic option from the menu...
People don't like those things, even - believe it or not - brown people. You are fortunate to have many miles between us after that. Shall I send you pictures of my niece and nephew? My sister- in- law is African- American. My brother, her husband, is as conservative as I. this has nothing to do with race... |
