They are both models of society that the leaders of the respective countries professed to believe in and they both violently imposed this on other countries.
2006-08-16 20:09:36 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Interesting
2006-08-16 20:24:12 · answer #1 · answered by mar 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The US doesn't "export democracy", it destroys and removes it:
* When the Cuban people wanted democracy - and for the US to leave - the US supported Batista, leaving communism as the only option.
* Iran was a free and democratic society until 1953. The Iranians refused to sell oil cheaply to the US, so the US and UK overthrew the democracy and installed the Shah.
* The Nicaraguan people freely and popularly elected the Sandanistas into power - TWICE - so the US imposed economic barriers upon the country, destroying the economy until the Nicaraguan people voted in a right wing government. Since then, the Nicaraguan economy has sunk even further due to corruption by two successive pro-US right wing governments.
In Chile, Argentina, Greece, the Philippines, the UK (read how the CIA help destroy Edmund Heath's government) and in dozens of other countries, the US has a long and disgusting history of opposing democracy when such democratic governments wouldn't be toadies to US government or business "interests".
The US is not a bastion of democracy by promoting it, it is a bastard of democracy that opposes it.
2006-08-16 20:22:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well Apollo...... maybe I'm just "drinking the kool-aid"...... but isn't freedom a better thing to spread than the totalitarianism, communist doctrine? or Fascism?
And I know, maybe i just believe that b/c it's the way I was raised...... but when the Berlin wall went up, I don't recall people risking their lives fleeing to the East. How many people are risking their lives in make shift rafts running from life in Florida, to head to Cuba for a better way of life? How many people immigrate into red China every year? Looking for a better life for their children and Grandchildren?
Ya, sue us for imposing our way of life on the rest of the world. Funny, I don't hear Western Europe, Poland, Italy,or Japan bitching about it. But you go ahead and feel free to gripe about it if you want to...... you can do that, because brave young Americans have spilled their blood all across this planet to give you that right. No need to say thank you.
2006-08-16 20:36:34 · answer #3 · answered by rummy714 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Freedom CAN be violently imposed.
See: World War I, World War II, American war for independence, Israeli war for independence, every other war for independence by every other free country, every war based upon defending the sovereignty of a nation (Gulf wars I and II), the Israeli "6 day" war, the 2006 Israel-Hizbollah conflict, the Crusades which liberated Europe from Muslim conquerors...
I would have to say the Germans, Italians, Japanese, Israelis, Chinese, and most of the rest of the world might have thanked us for our intervention on their behalf, as well as the Kuwaitis, the Phillippinos, and just about every other free people on Earth whom we liberated from their conquerors or their oppressive murderous governments.
Ask the Iraqi people if they are glad they are free. Ask the Afghani people. They will tell you that they never liked America, and many of them want us to leave... but they will also say they are glad to be rid of their dictators and terrorist regimes.
Even our enemies thank us for our support. That's how powerful freedom can be.
If you equate freedom with Communism, then move to China and become less than a person, a slave worker to the all-powerful state. Then tell me what you think of America.
You honestly have no clue if you think freedom is the same as tyranny. Read a book and STFU!!!
2006-08-16 20:23:28 · answer #4 · answered by askthepizzaguy 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes - why is the one accepted and the other not?? What makes Bush so special. Where I live - people tend to think that Bush is a power hungry wanna be dictator. Look at how he is throwing blame in the middle east. USA fire your president - he is going to cause WW3
2006-08-17 01:10:28 · answer #5 · answered by CLEVER 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
if freedom were equal to communism, and if freedom were being "violently" imposed on another country, then I guess you could say they are equivalent. .
those are pretty big ifs, tho'. .
2006-08-16 20:17:21 · answer #6 · answered by Wayne A 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
we are trying to violently impose freedom and democracy on a country that isn't ready for it and didn't ask for it. and what does any of this have to do with our freedom--that we keep hearing our boys are dying for? nothing!
2006-08-16 20:19:54 · answer #7 · answered by Joey's Back 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Isn't freedom to begin with. It's a distorted form of capitalism that's completely one-sided.
2006-08-16 20:25:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Maybe 30 years ago, yes.
Bush and US democracy now runs rampant. It's a big reason why the rest of the world hates us.
Who are we (the US) to say how we live is the right way?
2006-08-16 20:15:53 · answer #9 · answered by umwut? 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Freedom cannot be violently imposed.
2006-08-16 20:13:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋