Nope. Never did support AQ in or out of Afghanistan. Northern Alliance Muj, yes. Course we were helping them blow hell out of the Soviets, maybe you only have a problem with Americans taking over the world?
" And there you are, as well, justifying threats to fourteen-year-olds."
If they are holding a wishing stone threatening the entirety of creation, yes. Or an atom bomb.
But you wouldn't, you're better. :rolleyes:
"Oh, of course, you'll go to sleep at night claiming to yourself that you are somehow different from Stalin because... "
I know exactly how I'm different.
I know I shouldn't dip my fingers in someone else' pocket. I know my right to swing my fist stops at someone else's nose...that last changes once their fist connects with my or someone else's nose. Since I don't actually have any superpowers, I co-operate with other people to swing that fist with the greatest efficiency and effect possible.
"Allende never threatened the US."
I know better. Communism and communists are hostis humani generis.
That includes Goulart too.
For that matter, it includes(ed) Chavez, Maduro, Morales, Kirchner.
It includes Obama. He's like Stalin, he think it's ok to have his fingers in someone else's pocket, he's nationalized the US medical industry...he doesn't call it that, but the government is calling all the shots so...and what do you know. We're rationing saline in this country. They say the lack of it has something to do with the weather...
...Bullshit. There's been bad weather before, and never any shortage of fucking saline before. Damn near every bit of medical money moves in the US, either directly through Uncle Sam's hand or only by his leave.
It's communists doing what they've ever done ever since Rousseau laid the foundation for Marxism in his (Rousseau's) concept of the General Will, they fuck things up, get people killed--or simply order them shot dead in whatever number satisfies the Party's needs--and make the people poorer. And that pleases the Party, because beggars are easier to please.
That's no Cold War fantasy, that's just the reality of human history without a single exception.
I think even you have the wit to see Jon has swung his fist into quite a few noses. Merely being closely observed is the least he should expect.
