On 12/09/2016 10:31 AM, dadiOH wrote:
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It makes thinking about complex issues simpler and easier to keep score,
I guess. I had that reaction too. I mean we should be for freedom,
human rights, and to the extent these regimes oppress their people,'
we should be against that, but I'm not sure that automatically makes
them our enemies.

No reason it should IMO; however, doing so is good for some, namely, the
military and those who profit from war and turbulence. The government too;
an enemy - real or perceived - allows them to implement things that would
not normally be allowed. Just ask Dubya.

We spent close to a half century with the country all riled up over the
godless, communist USSR who never did jack squat to us except - possibly -
enable the allies to win WW2. During that tine the US was directly or
indirectly responsible for the deaths of millions of people all over the
world, all in the name of making the world safe for democracy, whether they
wanted it or not.

Well, the USSR went away so we needed another enemy. We got it. We got it
largely because of the US actions during the aforementioned half century.





Most of my life I've heard that Communists are evil. Communism is evil
and I've wondered about it.

Though a modified version of it seems to be working for China and
Vietnam, it certainly did not work out so well for USSR/ Russia, Cuba
and N. Korea


As I eventually learned, Communism strictly in theory is not necessarily
evil but in practice the Communist governments are very evil.


So while I was on the Army 1969/71 I was in air defense along the
Czechoslovakian boarder. Out purpose was to show the USSR our presence
and to tell the truth I did not think what we did was very much.

Now looking back at the way USSR and now Russia behaves, had the US not
been there, USSR/ Russia would have marched right in.


For all it's faults, I'd live the American way of life any day that
spend my life in a Communist country.


That said, out of necessity the US had to be friends with USSR to beat
Germany during WWII.


Possibly more than anything else, the Russian Winter is what defeated
Germany