[quote]Wreckless wrote:
orion wrote:
Wreckless wrote:
orion wrote:
Wreckless wrote:
Headhunter wrote:
A VERY big problem is foreigners understanding of how the world works. They assume that the world would go merrily along w/o U.S. leadership, the oil would flow, the commerce would continue, international investments would be safe, and so on.
This is a completely false view. Tribal chieftains around the world would be thrilled to blow up the oil tankers, burn down the factories and refineries, and murder foreigners with a joyful chuckles. Using ‘in the name of the PEOPLE’, they would not hesitate to enslave their people — look at Chavez in Venezuela or Mugabe in Zimbabwe. Look at the monsters who run the Islamic whackjob ‘republics’.
Either follow America to a free and just society, or sink into the slavery and destitution (while shouting Allah u Akbar the whole time).
You can not replace Allende with Pinochet and then blow the freedom and democracy horn again. I’m afraid you’ll have to decide.
Allende was a bad man.
Pinochet was a man that did what was necessary after the Chilenian parliament begged him to do something.
Allende was democratically elected. He was overthrown and killed by a brutal dictator.
You can’t overthrow a democratically elected leader because you don’t agree wihth him, and still claim to want to bring democracy to the world.
You can’t pressure the Palestines to have elections and then turn your back on them because they didn’t elect the guys you wanted.
With democracy comes respect for other peoples opinions.
He was elected and in part because he promised not to do a lot of things he started to do immediately after having been elected.
After having ruined Chile`s economy and after ruining foreign relations the parliament urged the Chilenian military to intervene which it did.
He was democratically elected. In any democracy, the parliament has the power to impeach a president, withing eggin the military on to plan a coup.
Perhaps certain elements in the Chilean parlianent weren’t quite certain they could defeat their opponent with democracy. They should be hanged for treason.
And being from Austria, you should probably reread the recent history of your country. You can’t get sloppy with democracy.[/quote]
The recent, or the very, very recent?
Anyway, I?d rather live under a military dictatorship than a communist one.
If I have to decide between freedom and democracy, freedom comes first.