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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Remember when American presidents didn't want to coddle, cuddle and spoon dictators?"
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"Remember when American presidents didn't want to coddle, cuddle and spoon dictators?" (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Oct 2020
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Blue Owl
(49,906 posts)1. K&R
ffr
(22,644 posts)2. Well done!
RainCaster
(10,676 posts)3. I was thinking of some more adult verbs for the title of this
But I like the video just like it is.
Caliman73
(11,690 posts)4. Good ad, but ... no, not really.
We have always coddled some dictators.
Bautista in Cuba
The Shah in Iran
Pinochet in Chile
Somoza in Nicaragua
Noriega in Panama
The Saud family in Saudi Arabia
You get my drift...
Trump is especially disgusting with his footsies with Putin, but America doesn't have a GREAT history with dictators.
Voltaire2
(12,610 posts)5. The only time that happened was under Carter.
Otherwise we have coddled, enthroned, propped up, and given refuge to hideous tyrants around the world.