Platt, you wrote:
> As for Nicaraguan contras, there's another side to the story. I'm sure
> we don't want to waste our time arguing about whether force was
> justified in that case. Let me just say that Chomsky was right when he
> called Soviet communism a "brutal and tyrannical system." The US
> didn't want that system in the Western Hemisphere, and rightly so
> IMHO.
>
Well, what I read is sad. On this basis, the Soviet Union was right
attacking Hungary (1956) and Czechoslovakia (1968). The USA have the right
to defend their frontiers (so I don't argue about the current war); and have
the right to defend their allies (so I don't want to argue about the Kuwait
war) ... BUT this entity you call the "Western Hemisphere" is something you
have just invented for the occasion. USA had no rights to support the
Contras and Pinochet. Allende, democratically elected, has been killed by a
"brutal and tyrannical system" supported by the USA. Well, you can say so
much time is passed and it's time for reconciliation. You can say that
during the cold war it was easy to make such mistakes and that the USA acted
just like the others. That, as we say here, the road to hell is full of good
intentions. It would be probably sage. But that adverb, "rightly", is
terribly sad.
Marco.
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