Syrian War - Remember Yugoslavia ?? OK - But Let's Remember the Real Story.

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29. Not Even Close to a Totalitarian Communist here ...

... but not an apologist for the exploitation of people by corrupt Barons of the "capitalist" sort either. It is indeed sad that Soviet workers had, in many cases, better standards of living and social-safety-net than American workers do today - but that is a measurement of our fall since the "New Deal" - not "how swell" the USSR was with "The State" micromanaging everyone's lives and their shares of the planet.

Hell, even the New Deal allowed a handful of Elites to claim to "own" or otherwise control our birthright - the Earth's Land and Mineral Resources. The next "Deal" we get better be OUR Offer to Them - "Hey, buddy, you didn't make that. It is ours." From that point, we can have actual "free trade" and "free association" and all those other "free" things that Crony Capitalism claims to offer everyone, but are REALLY only available to the wealthy "owners" from whom the 99.9% are forced to "rent our bodies" for "permission to exist on Earth."

As to the foreign policy of the USSR vs the USA - better take a look at Latin America - Operation Condor, and the now admitted-knowing aid to "Gas 'Em Saddam Hussein" http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014576674 before you get on an American Exceptionalist high horse.