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Originally posted by Spanky
Someone like Stalin does not stay in power for as long as he did without a signficant portion of the people underneath him believing in the philosophy of what he is doing. Everything he did could be justified as part of his communist philosophy.
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I am barely tuned into this discussion (when did the "P" in "PB" come to stand for Philosophy?), but this statement caught my eye.
Would you say the same about Saddam Hussein? Qaddafi? Castro?
Under your neo-con philosophy, assuming we could have invaded the USSR without triggering a nuclear war, would we have been justified in doing so to prevent the carnage that Stalin wreaked? Should we have told Patton to go for it, back in '45?
