Mr. D .. I didn' click on any of the links on that article .. I searched the page for Smith and didn't find one. Can you either paste the url here or let me know which link it was.
And in all honesty, I scanned the page until I got to the section Current Crisis and read that section, and
I didn't read the rest of the document.
If there was something important I missed, please share it.
I was just looking for something to get an idea of the atrocities the soviets did in the conflict so I could ask the question -- are we prepared to do that
I'm glad you're not one that is willing to do that ... unfortunately there are many chickenhawk republicans who would.
I know that pittypat enjoys listening to michael savage ... but not too long ago he advocated nuking 100 million muslims. The idea that it is OK to char-broil that many innocent people just to get a few is no better than the propaganda of osama bin laden.
This guy is just gushing with admiration for the Soviet Empire. He dares not call himself a communist/Stalinst but it's patently obvious where his sympathies lie. He actually downplays Stalin's atrocities.
"We hear of the millions who then died from famine in the decade of the 1930s in the wake of social disruptions caused by putting farms under collective or state ownership. But we are now alert to how intelligence services, furthering the policies of managers-of-state of imperial-centers-of-capital, expand or even create these images of rising--centers-of-capital as terrorist states. The truth is that the citizens of the former Soviet Union were fiercely loyal to, and worked hard for, their revolution and one should be very skeptical of those figures. The real threat was the potential for success of this new economic system which practiced participatory democracy. To prevent the subjects of their representative democracies from realizing the possibilities of full and equal rights under a participatory democracy was the primary purpose of the massive propaganda demonizing the Soviet federation as a bloody dictatorship."
Google search "peace" and "human rights" and you are likely to get an assortment of wolves in sheeps clothing. The
Global Issues site seems sympathetic to the radical Left.
No, I would not support the unlimited use of force. It has drawbacks but not those that those we sometimes hear about. For instance, brutality doesn't create more terrorists. It finishes the conflict but there is a moral and cultural price to pay.
