They deserved to die, sure, but what are they replaced with? During the cold war, we supported all kinds of evil tin pot dictators (Saddam included)because the alternatives were severely damaging to global stability. There is no “good” in the middle east, just sh*tty and sh*ttier...
“During the cold war, we supported all kinds of evil tin pot dictators (Saddam included)because the alternatives were severely damaging to global stability.”
That is the mantra of the anti-American left, yes.
It’s also poppycock.
The national leaders we supported against the communists—savage, murdering demons who *were* attacking constantly on all fronts—cannot correctly be termed “evil.”
The communists were evil. The bodies are properly laid at their door. The “tin-pot dictators” were struggling to prevent the reduction of their countries under absolute slavery. They were battling the greatest evil of the 20th century, and if the murderous depravity of the communists forced strong measure to combat them, well, I don’t have any respect for he who casts the first stone at them.
The TV series “Narcos” painted Pinochet as a bad guy because he had to fight the communist insurgency that was at war with his country. They say he killed 3000 or so commies.
I wish it had been 300,000 commies tortured and killed, and that the effort had spread to the entire western hemisphere. We would have done better to kill all the commmies, right down to the last cute freshman girl.