Jvaron@aol.com wrote: > > > Also, to say that the Soviet Union did not "export" terror is also specious. > How many nations had Soviet troops settled on them? Have you ever read Alex Cockburn's count of the death totals from state action in Eastern Europe and in Central America? You are simply raving because it is simply inconceivable to Americans, even most of those on the left or who were part of the anti-war movement in the '60s, that America could be in any really serious way the "bad guy." It is amazing how few are willing to apply Chomsky's criterion: Judge the U.S. by the same standards other nations are judged by. An economist on another list estimated that the death toll inflicted by the IMF has reached about 21 million. There is a rogue nation loose in the world. Unless more of the citizens of that rogue nation can be brought to see how horrible a threat their nation is, the future for all humanity is bleak. I bet you cut U.S. soldiers a lot more slack than you would give the Japanese Imperial soldiers of WW 2. Why? They were both conscript armies. It looks as though in the long run the greatest damage that Hitler will have done to the human species is by providing cover for other criminal nations. How many Red Army troops were ever stationed in South America? In India? In Africa? In the Mideast? (Stalin withdrew the Red Army from Iran. That perhaps was one of his worst crimes. Carrol
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