I started thinking about this another way. On the flip side, extremist regimes are quite happy with our “America is the greatest” rhetoric, and aggressive behavior. It creates fear in their populations, which are also more likely to accept a “values-based” regime.
(Certainly not suggesting that the GOP is as bad as some other regimes out there. Invariably, if you draw any parallels, people will pull up some story about how xyz country tortures children and show that your points are unacceptable because waterboarding is just not as bad as that…)
(and yes, this icon is very rude, but I'm amused by it)
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Date: 2008-10-07 03:22 pm (UTC)I started thinking about this another way. On the flip side, extremist regimes are quite happy with our “America is the greatest” rhetoric, and aggressive behavior. It creates fear in their populations, which are also more likely to accept a “values-based” regime.
(Certainly not suggesting that the GOP is as bad as some other regimes out there. Invariably, if you draw any parallels, people will pull up some story about how xyz country tortures children and show that your points are unacceptable because waterboarding is just not as bad as that…)
(and yes, this icon is very rude, but I'm amused by it)