vimothy
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vimothy, please can you list the great track record of 'the right' has when it comes to 'fighting tyrants'? is it bigger than the list of tyrants 'the right' has supported?
World Wars II through IV (that is, the wars against fascism, communism and Islamism - the right defended and continues to defend democracy in all three, the left only in WWII).
as you should know, there was no link between iraq and suicide bombers until after the invasion (which, i may as well point out again, was illegal).
Well, I can think of one sense in which you're totally wrong about that (Saddam's sponsorship of suidice bombers in Israel), but that wasn't what I was saying. If you consider the Mid East as a whole, Saddam's regime was the worst in terms of cruelty and was a failing state. If the Mid East was filled with successful stable democracies, I don't think that people would be as quick to turn to recationary fascist movements.
your continued assumptions regarding the absolute goodness of the west and the shock at the lack of gratitude shown by those who are suffering due to our goodness, continues to astound.
Yawn - none of this is true. Tyranny is the norm through human history, the acheivements of the west are remarkable in that regard, but they are in no sense reflective of some sort of innate "absolute goodness" (whatever that means), they are accidents of geography and historical development, no more, no less. I would like to give the rest of the world the same advantages we enjoy.