Re: US Foreign Policy: The Wogs Begin at Calais
I'm not an advocate of mookie's real politik. I don't believe the US should have sullied its hands by supporting the Shah (or for that matter overthrowing the democratically elected government and installing him in the first place).
There is a middle ground between propping up dictators and going in guns a blazin'. It has the advantage of (1) not murdering thousands of American troops and hundreds of thousands of innocent people, and (2) ya know, working.
But it takes a long time and makes it (slightly) harder to sell missiles, and it doesn't further chicken hawks' careers. And of course if you let a democracy develop from inside a country rather than being imposed from outside, those people might pick the wrong democracy.
Originally posted by SJHovey
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There is a middle ground between propping up dictators and going in guns a blazin'. It has the advantage of (1) not murdering thousands of American troops and hundreds of thousands of innocent people, and (2) ya know, working.
But it takes a long time and makes it (slightly) harder to sell missiles, and it doesn't further chicken hawks' careers. And of course if you let a democracy develop from inside a country rather than being imposed from outside, those people might pick the wrong democracy.
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