Re: on the arrogance of ignorance.....


"hummingbird" <OPRBMDQMZNLV@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 19 Apr 2006 13:00:40 -0700 "Stephen Horgan" <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

So when the Russians rolled into Hungary, Czechoslovakia and
Afghanistan they were just taking 'defensive measures'?

As I've already explained, the purpose of taking over those Eastern
European countries was to create a buffer zone between the motherland
and the West so that if a war was to be fought it would be fought
on their territory. America uses the exactly same strategy today. It
invaded Iraq (according to Bush's latest excuse) to "protect America".
Right?

How on earth can Iraq be a buffer zone around the USA in the same way that
the Soviet Union's 'allies' were a buffer against Western Europe?

Yes 'America' may have invaded Iraq to protect American interests. This
doesn't seem at all equivalent to the annexation by the Soviet Union of
neighbouring states. For one thing, there was the Brezhnev Doctrine.

Why do you turn a blind eye to what America does but criticise other
nations for doing the same thing? You're brainwashed are yer?

When the North
Koreans maintain a huge army with nuclear weapons while starving their
own people under a grim dictatorship they are just taking 'defensive
measures'?

Nothing to do with the Cold War.
But yes ...NK is taking defensive measures.

ISTM pretty obvious that the NK administration is trying to protect
_itself_, not NK. To this end they keep the North Korean people weak and
the administration strong, and arm themselves with nuclear weapons to deter
any humanitarian intervention. What does the average North Korean get out
of it? Malnourished children? It's fine that these people are starving and
repressed though, because the NK dictatorship is defending itself against
the evil West, right?

When Iran engages in a decade of deception to develop
expensive technology whose only purpose is the production of nuclear
weapons while most of their own people live in poverty and while
threatening to destroy Israel they are just taking 'defensive
measures'?

Totally unprovable and nothing to do with the Cold War.
But yes ....Iran is taking defensive measures.

ISTM a far better way for a 'country' not be attacked is to become a good
neighbour, avoiding the need to defend itself.

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