Quote Originally Posted by diogen_ View Post
Coming back to the "axis of evil". The bottom line of your message is that these states are not evil in the slightest. They are just normal states that are insidiously compromised by the US propaganda. Right?
1) I am not God, so it's not for me to say what's good or evil in terms of politics. Their populations will eventually rise up if the situation is intolerable. That's exactly what's happened in the past historically across the world. And their leaders will one day have to answer for how they how exercised the leadership that was given to them.

2) I have visited enough countries labelled as "evil" by the USA to know that it's hugely exaggerated, at the very least. The USA sees the world through its star-striped specs and believes its own interpretation and value judgment is the only valid one. Plus, only countries that don't play the US game, are even judged in the first place. Look at Saudi look at Bahrain.

3) I am not going to let a country that still practices the death penalty, keeps political prisoners indefintely, without charging them, and under sub-human conditions tell me what's moral or immoral! Or a country where the majority of the population can't find even one out of two countries on the map, that they've been at war with for over 10 years!

4) The countries the US are putting judgments on, usually have a radically different history, culture, religion, economic situation etc, etc. To apply European or American standards on what goes on in these countries is presuppositional and arrogant.

5) The US supports, and has supported regimes that most people would consider disgusting. Countless across South America, the Shah, Saudi, Bahrain, Phillipinrd, military junta in South Korea and much, much more. For such a country to then come and say that certain other nations are evil in comparison to the brutal examples I mentioned, is just hypocritical and lacks credibility.