I think I explain my stance pretty clearly in this other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23991554 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23991554 I

I think I explain my stance pretty clearly in this other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23991554 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23991554 I do understand how it might be a "disingenuous comparison" to you as an American citizen who primarily thinks of your government according to its internal policies (and even those raise quite a lot of eyebrows). But as a third party that's spent all of my life witnessing (for instance) the death toll of US foreign policy, my fundamentally different world view is that the mouth preaches while the hands feed poison. Why should I take up arms for one brand of poison over the other?