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Once that I can think of, the world produced a GOOD dictator, Fidel Castro, and we have now spent 40 years forcing him to fail! Keep in mind that Castro, among other evil things like great health care, managed to make sure that over 90% of his citizens learned to read!
On top of that, point me at a Latin American country that has a significantly better human rights record, and they all have our support!
When are we going to discover that the two things that make a society (ours included) succesful are education and freedom of debate/press. In my opinion, killing people isn't nearly as dangerous as shutting them up!
Instead of bombing the Iraqis, why don't we send 500,000 soldiers to Afganistan to build bridges and schools? If we want to stop terrorism, we need to connect with the world. Why is it so difficult to understand that we need to build good schools more than good governments? Good governments can always become bad ones, but an educated populace can always make its own choices!
Religion is by choice, government is too!
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