Decline and fall of the US.

[Killiana1a]

HernanDroid said:

Killiana1a said:

It worked in Iran until Carter was elected PoTUS. If Carter had given the Shah full support along with an unlimited supply of US munitions, then we would not be in the situation the world is facing now with a bunch of nutjob clerics running Iran and allowing that blowhard, Ahmadinejad to take the blame with his touting of a nuclear Iran.

As for propping up dictators, it makes sense in regions where they have a history of dictatorial rule and know nothing of democracy other than stuffing ballot boxes and assassinating opposition candidates.

In cases such as this, I fully support propping up dictators if it is in the best interest of world stability and averting a nuclear war. Yes, it may be antithetical to Western democracy and ideals, but some regions on this planet, due to their history, will never develop a democracy on their own, henceforth in the best interests of world powers, it makes cold-hearted political sense to prop up and support dictators.

 

In most of the cases, the dictators generate even worse problems than the ones the country has before.

 

Look at Argentina, Chile(Pinochet), Peru(Fujimori), Venezuela(Hugo Chavez), Iraq(George Bush), North Korea, etc, etc, etc.

Many of them were not impossed, but still they acted as dictators, Hugo Chavez is elected "In a democratic way", but he uses a lot of goverment-related money to buy the people, and since they are living sort of good, they dont care about the democratics, the comunist, etc, etc. That's one of the problems supporting dictators bring with them.

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Back to economics, i still believe the USA are doing what they need to do in order to be back to "before-crysis" times. We have sort of a similar crysis here in Colombia in 1998 and it took us 12 years to recover ourselves and be few months to gain "Investment Grade" again.

I agree that dictators cause many problems. However, I think it is a far better alternative than allowing a nuclear armed nation to hold an election where an extremist group such as Hamas has the potential to gain power and the button to the nuke.

I am referring to Pakistan.

Yes, dictators have come to power under democratic processes as both Hitler and Chavez illustrate. That being said, it is up to the people of the nation to depose them (with outside support if need be).

Dictators are a necessary evil if a nation, like Afghanistan, is full of religious extremists who hold a distorted view of a peaceful religion have the means and likelihood to gain power through violence.

I would advocate for a dictatorship aimed at annihilating every one of these religious extremists, then giving the power back to the people.