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Originally Posted by kerry edwards
I've certainly heard him criticize other places in the world and also offer an explanation as to why he focuses on exposing US imperial foreign policy. It's because he thinks people have an obligation to speak up about the system they are responsible for as citizens of a democracy. Seems reasonable to me.
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I too, have read his criticisms of foreign regimes. I have always found them to be well-reasoned, though not necessarily justified. And the same of his criticisms of the USA.
I agree folks have a civic obligation and moral duty to speak-up when they believe their gov is operating counter to the best interests of the governed.
How many criticisms of say, ... Indonesian transgressions of human freedom = 1 transgression of human freedom in the USA? Liberia? Rwanda? ANY-stan? Russia? Cuba?
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