When Bush hatred makes you a moron...

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara

Originally posted by Oerdin
The ues of external force also allowed South Korea to remain free of North Korea while the threat of external force is the only reason Taiwan is still free. True both Taiwan and South Korea took a few decades to mature but they are now fully functioning democracies with all the modern protections which go along with it.

Uhm, to "remain free" one would have had to have been free in the first place. Korea only became mostly democratic in the 90s, and is still quite thuggish today. The same goes for Taiwan. The force applied by the West was to defend brutal dicatorships of the worst kind.

Uh, your "quite thuggish" pales in comparison with NK.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Uh, your "quite thuggish" pales in comparison with NK.

Only after fifty years. In the 1950s, it wasn't so clear cut. Rhee solidified his rule by slaughtering over 100,000 people. Up until the late 70s, the economy of the DPRK was better than that of the RoK. When given a choice of countries to claim citizenship from, the Koreans in Japan overwhelmingly chose to become North Koreans. Course, now they're stuck with that choice.

[Ned]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara


Only after fifty years. In the 1950s, it wasn't so clear cut. Rhee solidified his rule by slaughtering over 100,000 people. Up until the late 70s, the economy of the DPRK was better than that of the RoK. When given a choice of countries to claim citizenship from, the Koreans in Japan overwhelmingly chose to become North Koreans. Course, now they're stuck with that choice.

Uh, Che, could some of these slaughtered "people" be communist guerillas?

[child of Thor]

Does anybody know how many Native Americans were killed by the european occupation of the America's?

[Ned]

Originally posted by child of Thor
Does anybody know how many Native Americans were killed by the european occupation of the America's?

Or by the German occupation of the Roman Empire?

Or for that matter by the African slave trade that dumped "tens of millions" of dead Africans overboard as crowded slave ships sailed West?

But the truth is that communism killed a lot more in its quest to end "property" by killing "owners" and the middle class. Very French Revolution.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Ned
Uh, Che, could some of these slaughtered "people" be communist guerillas?

No.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by child of Thor
Does anybody know how many Native Americans were killed by the european occupation of the America's?

Well, in the U.S. (and territories that would become the U.S.), the Indian population went from an estimated 3 million in 1800 to a quarter million in 1900. Today the American Indian population stands around 1.5 million. Most of that decline was due to disease and starvation, but as we deliberately starved them, we're historically responsible for a lot of that death.

[child of Thor]

So what do you think Ned+Che, is it time to try and do better than pretty much ALL our illustrious fore-fathers(and monthers!)?

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Ned
But the truth is that communism killed a lot more in its quest to end "property" by killing "owners" and the middle class. Very French Revolution.

Sorry Ned, communism hasn't even come close to the level of death that capitalism has caused. In any given decade, capitalism kills off as many people as communism did from 1917 to present.

[child of Thor]

no no no, lets not mud sling in this important momment of human realisation. We are all guilty. We've all been bad in our past. We can do better. Try it and see

[Ned]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara


No.

Good. Rise to the bait.

Now, give us a link to the propaganda site that lays out the "details" on the people Rhee murdered.

[child of Thor]

sigh! we have a long way to go