Hi Marco:
Do you not detect a moral difference between the acts of the former
Soviet Union and the U.S. . . . between a brutal, tyrannical system and a
liberal democracy?
To morally equate the two is to argue there's no difference between
pushing an old lady out of the way of an incoming bus and pushing an
old lady into the way of an incoming bus because either way you are
pushing old ladies around.
To state it more directly, overthrowing a tyranny is very different from
imposing one.
According to the MOQ, democratic capitalism is clearly more moral
than socialist systems because free markets are more capable of
responding to Dynamic Quality. Haven't we agreed on this before?
The U.S. isn't perfect. But if you had to choose, who would you rather
see march into your town, U.S. soldiers or the Russian army?
Platt
> 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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