oh please. Like the euphemism "maintain stability in the region" is materially better.
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Yep, because he's calling on USA to emulate those regimes in their worst acts. That's new.
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With all due respect,
@heerjeet, Desmond Tutu disagrees with you.@ggreenwald@samfbiddle -
Praising dictators at their worst is not at all new for US foreign policy
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Right. It's the difference between supporting dictatorships abroad versus advocating for dictatorship here.
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Reagan didn't say Rios Montt was necessary evil; he said he was "totally dedicated to democracy." Conversely, (cont)
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Jeanne Kirkpatrick did praise Somoza and the Shah at their worst: b/c they were preserving traditional society.
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Even Kirkpatrick, awful as she was, had fig leaf that these regimes would democratize. Trump rejects that fig leaf.
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He could've aligned himself with rendition & CIA torture, but brutal dictators are less politically toxic than Bush.
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