Cuba: Maybe We Should Give Them a Chance

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The fight to maintain a brutal tyranny in Guatemala in the name of anti-communism though motivated by a desire for a handful of people to take everything and rule over the others to the point of slavery was one motivated by total evil.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_terrorism

Elliott Abrams did try making intellectual justifications for maintaining brutal oligarchies in Central America by force by speaking of the need to maintain "traditional societies" and their "traditional poverty" and that this was a good cause. The USA really is the leading factor of backwardness in the world. Look what they have done in the Middle East with their alliance with Waha'abbi Sa'udi Arabia.

Again... communism did horrible things, yes. Fighting fire with fire as you say, and tolerating and funding and supporting genocide and mass murder against genocide and mass murder is justifiable (but have those crimes been committed against the USA?) would make the second country go down to the same level as the first, assuming it was in a higher level on the first place.
The thing is, in many cases the war against communism was an excuse to make US citizens feel better, while the real motivations were economical or political, and the US intervened against countries who had done nothing against the USA besides, in an example, daring to ask US multinationals to *gasp* pay taxes and give fair wages to their workers. During the XX century, the USA government was very proactive at backing US multinationals with their military, and countries had to either comply or risk getting intervened.
And to talk a bit about communism, as there were some cases where the US intervened because a country had democratically elected a president with communist tendencies, did they have the right to do that, and put in power US friendly brutal dictatorships instead?

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Yes, your right. We Americans are horrible for ever wanting to keep those wonderful communists at bay.
Shame on us.

Communists stick in Raptor's craw

As schneekugel said some time ago, it is not about "you Americans" but about actions taken by your government. Could a socialist system have worked in those countries? We'll never know. But we do know the atrocities that capitalistic dictators committed in those countries with US support, dictators that the US government put there in the first place, and yes, I believe your government was horrible for doing that. Also, there is such a thing as a right for self-determination, which the US failed to respect.

And what about the first case, where communism was not involved but economic interests were?

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