-----Mensagem original----- De: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]Em nome de Brad De Long Enviada em: segunda-feira, 22 de maio de 2000 00:48 Para: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Assunto: Re: Fwd: US Blamed for 2000 Korean Student Deaths in 1980
>
Surely U.S. forces are worth maintaining in South Korea as long as North Korea is ruled by, in Eric Hobsbawm's phrase, "totalitarian megalomaniacs"?
Brad DeLong
The Yugoslavian communists also did a great job by keeping their country united (at least until Vatican, Germany and other rogue states started to intervene in internal matters, leading to this horrible civil war). Also the Soviet communists also did a great job, trying to avoid the transition to market economy, which killed as people as Stalin did (with much worse economic results...). And what about Castro, who protected the Cuban people from US backed genocide (like in Guatemala)? Not to mention the heroic Vietnam Army, who defeated the (Also US backed) Khmer Rouge. And many Afghans probably would welcome the Red Army, if they came back to free the Afghanistan from the Talibans (and wonder who supported them in the 80´s....)
Alexandre Fenelon