"dictatorial monarch"
I believe he became dictatorial because of the communist insurgency. At times, in the real world, such things do happen.
Dictatorial monarchs are always better than communist dictatorships.
Maybe you should look up the relative meanings of "authoritarian" and "totalitarian." Your ignorance is an embarrassment.
If I implied an equivalency between the two sides, that was a mistake. I agree wholeheartedly that communism leads unerringly to suffering. I read somewhere that in attempts to gauge "happiness" among world populations base economic success was surprisingly irrelevant, but that those under communist regimes were always less happy than those under any other system of government.
Basically, my previous post can be boiled down into two questions:
A) what is the vital US interest in Nepal (and this is a question that I am completely ignorant on, I admit), and
B) how can we help eradicate marxist rebellion while at the same time encouraging democratic reform? I understand that the hardening of the dictatorship in Nepal was a response to the rebels, but I also believe that frustration with non-democratic government only helps drive rebellions.
And thank you for the vocab lesson.