[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Is it worth it?

Just how many movies about the heroic anti-communist struggles of that period with the right goodguys and badguys have you seen lately? Good acting and directing too!

[hole_n_one]

Just how many movies about the heroic anti-communist struggles of that period with the right goodguys and badguys have you seen lately?

I could have been the victim of a horrible accident involving heavy-duty farming equipment and lost both my hands and I would still have enough fingers to count how many movies I've seen as you described.

I'll find the time.

[AmericanExceptionalist]

Yes, from Hungary in 1956 to Cuba's Bay of Pigs in 1961, to Kurdistan in 1988, our government seems to have a pattern of betrayal whenever crunch time rolls around.

It can all be summed up by the hugely cynical policy of realpolitik--a Machiavellian policy pursued by too many Republican presidents of the past (e.g. Eisenhower, Ford, Bush 41), and rightly rejected by many Democrats of the past.

But now that President Bush (43) has rejected realpolitik in favor of a more idealistic policy, today's Dems are demanding a return to this tired, amoral policy.

It figures.