Russia plans to add military bases in Nicaragua, Venezuela, other countries

[delrem]

40. If, like some DU posters,

you hate the democratic left in Latin America with every breath you take, then you take your lead from e.g. Ronald Reagan's soporific fireside tales and the war criminal Henry Kissinger's policy decisions (and rationales), and your heroes and heroines are death squads trained in the School of the Americas, and you desperately want a return to those days of US glory. Not that you'd *say* it out loud, on DU. No, you'd no doubt claim to be a "progressive", while with every single post implicitly supporting that kind of RW extremism that knows no moral bounds.

In those not so long ago days military bases in Latin America propped up right wing dictators, often as not brought into existence and maintained in existence by US backed coups, and the indigenous (and not so indigenous) left was in their tens of thousands systematically decimated, murdered, tortured, disappeared. The dear leaders bringing this to "america's backyard" did so under cover of a faux 'cold war' meme (not unlike the current 'anti-terror' meme) that justifies*everything*, no matter how horrific. Regular folk could abide by or be mind-numbingly mindless of this, could go along with and support it, could *blink*, because regular folk were "middle class" and the horror of it had no effect whatsoever on their lives -- just as the Iraq war had no effect whatsoever on the lives of the vast majority of US middle class citizens.

I'm seeing a return to the thinking of those days reflected by entire teams of posters at DU -- posters who show an explicit contempt for history, blatantly calling history as recent as 20-30 yrs ago "ancient" and "irrelevant". The shallowness this brings to any debate is excruciatingly awful, and the more I hear it the more I write off the US as past hope.

And it's from such as them that &quot non-US) military bases", in this instance, is thrown out as some kind of reasoning, some kind of premise.