Originally Posted by cmac2012

KGB thugs used to get tired of people badmouthing the Soviet Union, more than just a little tired, in fact, they'd lock up 'em up and torture them over it.

Respiteme meine freunde, patriotism is a knee-jerk emotion, which may or may not be worth a damn.

You like US corporate interventions in Latin Am countries? Well surely you loved the Somoza regime in Nicaragua, where American corps. helped keep Somoza in a position oddly similar to the one Saddam had in Iraq.

I'll grant you that the situation in Cuba with Batista was not so cut and dried but Somoza was a major a$$ but like Roosevelt said, "he was our a$$" -- or "bastard" actually, I think.

Surest way for our country to screw up is to have a majority of citizens willing to rubberstamp any GD thing our gubmint wants to do.