(I don't know anything about this story but..) we've begun to celebrate the virtues of dictators It's not a new thing at all. For a lot of the 20th C the US w

(I don't know anything about this story but..) we've begun to celebrate the virtues of dictators It's not a new thing at all. For a lot of the 20th C the US was doing precisely that. Fighting democracy and supporting dictators. There are dozens of countries where that happened. The accounts are depressing, horrifying. Which, yes, has happened with such regularity that you could say the US kills people. It imprisons people. It poisons people. It cheats, it steals (from masses of poor people). It lies in the face of the world (bare chested). One quick way to get some sense of the reality is to look at the voting in the United Nations, (GA and SC). I did that once for votes in the 80s and 90s. Typically, there's a vote on something that almost every country in the world thinks is a good idea, except for 1 or 2 of the worst dictatorships...and the USA. It's quite amazing to see that in 'black and white'. Nothing like the God-Is-On-Our-Side picture painted on the US news TV shows.