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Originally Posted by strandinthewind
Well, take Afganistan - what should we have done there - let the Taliban exist? Another example is Hitler or the Kaiser before him - should we have just let Germany appoint another Kaiser or another Hitler - of course not. I think the problem comes when we chose the people to supplant the overthrown govt. A good example of this is SH.
But, to say the U.S. should never help overthrow a horrible dictator and then control his replacement so that another is not in the job is just wrong.
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we often overthrow them and replace them with someone who works for our interests, by that i mean business, corporate interests, and not for the welfare of their own countries' people.
Yes, evil despots are bad. But what we replace them with is bad, too.
I have the feeling we could talk about this forever...
