Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JohnM who wrote (83431)	3/18/2003 3:22:42 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

I think it is absurd to equate the establishment and support of liberal democracies with imperialism. One has to be a Marxist, or similarly blinkered, to suppose that a regime that is accountable to the people through free and fair elections, has civil liberties (especially freedom of speech, press, assembly, and religion), and is committed to a meliorist approach to social problems is a tyrannical imposition. And while it is true that we have supported authoritarian regimes in the past, it was generally with the understanding that we were supporting the lesser of two evils, and regimes more open to internal reform then communist regimes would be.....