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>and stopping dictators If the US cared about stopping "dictators", why are there so many dictators allies of the US?
by Jerry2 8y ago
>and stopping dictators
If the US cared about stopping "dictators", why are there so many dictators allies of the US?
- azinman2 8y agoBecause politics and circumstance.
- andrepd 8y agoWhich implies that they do not care about "dictatorships".
- azinman2 8y agoI think that there are strong tendencies and actions towards democracies where convienent and possible. Unfortunately the world is a messy place — ideological purity gets you no where.
- lucisferre 8y ago> ideological purity gets you no where. While I also disagree with the parent, these facts are not in evidence.
- lucisferre 8y agoThat is a bit of a simplistic conclusion. The hypocrisy is clear, but hypocrisy is not sufficient to prove that one does not care at all. What is pretty clear is that the USA takes a strategic and occasionally very partisan view when making their choices of alliances as well as their use of power and force. I'm not sure they are very unique in this respect though.
- ekianjo 8y agoEven if they genuinely cared about it, 90 percents of regimes worldwide are dictatorships or authoritarian regimes. So you can not work with anyone if you have very strong principles.