“But I don’t judge our actions by what others do - I judge our actions by my concepts of right and wrong.”
Nonsense. You literally brought up the CIA as a “whatabout” response to what the communists did. It’s just a distracting argument, and nothing more.
If you want to talk about the sins of the CIA, go make a thread about that and I’ll be happy to talk about it, where it would be on topic, and not just a disingenous argument to derail a conversation.
I’m just saying the moral indignation is bunk.
If folks want to talk “real politik” let’s do it. I am suggesting we have an actual intellectual argument about this stuff.
When people are so emotionally attached to their presuppositions it makes it difficult to do that.