Re: Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama Discuss Space Policy

On Feb 24, 12:27 pm, Ian Parker <ianpark...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The US did not care a
toss for women's or anyone else's rights during the CW.

Great Britain obviously didn't care for anyone's rights during World
War II, because it allied itself with Stalin's regime in Russia,
right?

Of course, that would be a stupid accusation. Stopping Hitler was the
*most important* struggle in the defense of human rights at that time.

During the Cold War, now that Hitler had been disposed of, we had a
nuclear-armed Soviet Union bent on world conquest to deal with. So
that meant the U.S. didn't have the ability to pick and choose the
governments of Third World nations that it had to defend from
Communist attack.

It's certainly true that the U.S. isn't really bent on promoting the
equality of women aggressively from one end of the Islamic world to
the other. This is probably a good idea, since if it comes to
occupying the homelands of the world's one billion Muslims, a draft
would be inevitable.

Vietnam was during the Cold War, when nuking North Vietnam was not an
option, thanks to that pesky Soviet Union. G. W. Bush is doing
everything he can to work with the existing regimes in the Muslim
world, warts and all, to *prevent* the nightmare where some other type
of government, in a United States exhausted by war, and shocked by a
new act of terror, decides to end the conflict the neat, easy, simple
- and genocidal - way, by just pushing a button.

He is doing the right thing, following responsible policies and
staying the course. That is the best way to ensure it never comes to
that.

John Savard
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