From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Thu Jun 05 2003 - 21:46:18 MDT
In a message dated 6/5/2003 10:38:24 PM Central Standard Time,
MaxPlumm@aol.com writes: In what sense am I mistaken in preferring a world of American
military hegemony to one dominated by the Soviets? On a smaller scale, how am I
wrong to prefer a world in which the South Koreans are governed by democracy and
not the whims of Kim Jong Il? How is it wrong to wish that the Soviets had not
brutually crushed the rebellions in East Germany, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia
in the 1950s and 60s and allowed freedom to come to those beleaguered people?
How is it wrong to wish that the Soviet Union had never invaded Afghanistan,
inflicting a death toll of 1.5 million people on that land, 90 percent of
which were civilian casualties? How is it wrong to wish that South Vietnam had
survived, possibly evolving into a full and vibrant democracy, when the Communist
alternative offers no possibility of that outcome to this very day?
Good job, Max
Ron h.
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