> This is why it is important to keep a technological edge over authoritarian governments. Such governments are not morally equivalent to democracies. They have

> This is why it is important to keep a technological edge over authoritarian governments. Such governments are not morally equivalent to democracies. They have radically different goals, and radically different value systems. For all this boasting about how moral the US is, remember that the US illegally invaded Iraq, leading to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. More generally, the US and its allies have wreaked untold havoc in the Middle East over the last 20 years. And going farther back, the US fought a long and brutal colonial war in Vietnam (plus neighboring Laos and Cambodia), in which it killed millions.