Platt,
you know I don't equate USA and Soviet Union. I offer few sparse statements.
a - "tyrannical systems" prospere wherever people inside the system are convinced that the system is the best one, so take care.
b - the Soviets were perfectly convinced they were living in the best possible system, and they invaded Hungary just to "Defend their Hemisphere"; that is, for the same reason you are suggesting the USA *rightly* built a tyrannical regime in Nicaragua and Chile.
c - USA is a liberal democracy inside its bordelines. Often (Nicaragua, Cuba and Chile are examples) it has not the same abroad, so if I were a Nicaraguan, or a Cuban, I really could not understand why the USA should be better than the Soviet Union. Actually, the absurd policy of the USA triggered the Cuban revolution, and you have the Communists few miles off Miami since the 50's. This "invasion of your hemisphere" (btw, it is not *yours*) is a consequence of the American policy, not the other way round. Exactly like the "invasion of Eastern Europe" was triggered by the absurd policy of the Soviet Union.
d - If the USA is a liberal democracy it is NOT thanks to the facts in Nicaragua and Chile. Quite the contrary. Please, have the courage to admit the crimes of your nation. It would make you a better person, and America a better nation.
e - Who do you are to decide what is good for Chile and Nicaragua?
f - I was just criticizing that *rightly*. Your words sound like "We are a liberal democracy, so we can rightly do what we want"
Marco
(still sad)
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