Again, while I agree that we are all citizens of the world...

...I am an American citizen first.

And I want what is best for America.

It is as simple as that.

Now, I'm not being naive, I told you that I understand that Somoza and Batista and others like him were bad. But I consider the comparison to be pale when examining what the Stalin regime and the spread of Soviet Communism had done to eastern Europe...the Pols, for example.

The Soviets had to be stopped at any cost. Stalin was just as bad as Hitler. Again, as I told Plaw, the Truman quote sums it up nicely.

Would it be nice if we could be moralistic in foreign policy? Of course. If we could ally with peaceful nations, then that would be best, of course. But it isn't realistic. Don't you think that economic deals with shady nations like Saudi Arabia or China in the past don't coincide with American freedoms and ideals? If you take it to that level, than internationalism and capitalism, on a moral level, really doesn't fit with American ideals.

But we're not talking moralism here. We're talking about the US foreign policy, which, in this instance, was necessary to prevent and contain the Soviet menace and the spread of evil.