On Oct 16, 2012, at 4:25 PM, "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> Something like this has always seemed to me fairly obvious. Mostly because
> the voluminous "criticism" of these regimes has never, once, led to anything
> useful, except perhaps to the moral self-satisfaction of the critic.
Actually, Vietnam staged one of the only admirable and successful humanitarian interventions in history and deposed Pol Pot - over U.S. opposition. So this glorious hero of socialism was actually a useful pawn of Washington.
And your comment is, of course, utterly free of moral self-satisfaction.
Doug