[malakhi]

And we shouldn't coddle dictators just because they are anti-communist.

Should we ally ourselves with dictators just because they are anti-National Socialist?

Does the one imply the other to you?

[ArrogantBustard]

We allied ourselves with Stalin; we supplied his armies with food and munitions at great expense both in monetary terms, and in terms of lives lost to German U-Boat attacks on the Murmansk shipping runs.

1) Was Josef Stalin anything other that a bloodthirsty dictator?

2) Did we ally ourselves with him for any reason other that that he was anti-National Socialist?

If you're going to object to 'coddling' anti-communist dictators, I'd expect (as a matter of intellectual honesty) that you'd object to outright alliance with anti-National Socialist dictators.