[GiovannaNicoletta]

This is a keeper. Thanks for posting.

[kinoxi]

But he's Harry Belafonte. He must be right....

[Sherman Logan]

About 160 million people were murdered in the 20th century by their governments. The US was responsible, even at second hand, for very few of these deaths. About 40 million died in wars.

http://www.mega.nu/ampp/rummel/20th.htm

[XR7]

BTTT

[missnry]

let's see:
... a regime that has killed over 1,400,000 of its neighbors and own people, shot at U.S. aircraft on UN sanction missions, tried to assassinate a former U.S. president, had contacts with terrorists, had produced WMD and maintained resources to produce them again (assuming it actually got rid of those it had), had declared itself hostile to the U.S. and it allies, and continues to defy UN resolutions, violating terms of its own surrender.

how quickly people forgot why we went into Iraq!

[Hatteras]

"Germany 1940-45. Nazis killed 11,000,000 Jews, Romas, homosexuals, Slavs, the mentally ill and communists."

Nazi Germany would have been no place to be if you were a mentally ill communist Slavic homosexual...

[pigsmith]

"Those are example of what happens when the U.S. is not around."

Regardless whether the rest of the world likes us or not, I believe chaos would reign world-wide if the restraining influence of the U.S. ceased to exist.

[Tolik]

Nailed It!
Moral Clarity BUMP !

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[Valin]

One way to get a handle on "evil" in the world is to examine genocides. The list below is a complete listing of all alleged genocides since 1915, according to Wikipedia.


Japan 1910-45. Japanese killed 25,000,000 Chinese and enslaved millions of Koreans.
Turkey 1915-23. Turks (Muslims) killed 1,500,000 Armenians (Christians).
Soviet Union 1918-89. Soviet Communists killed 20,000,000. (Fatality count is from The Black Book of Communism.
Germany 1940-45. Nazis killed 11,000,000 Jews, Romas, homosexuals, Slavs, the mentally ill and communists.
Croatia 1941-45. Croats (Catholics) killed 500,000 Serbs (Christian Orthodox).
China 1950-80. Chinese Communists killed 65,000,000 fellow Chinese. (Fatality count from The Black Book of Communism.)
Zanzibar 1964. Africans killed 5,000 Arabs and Jews.
Bangladesh 1971. Muslims killed 1,500,000 Hindus.
Burundi 1972. Tutsis killed 125,000 Hutus........


Yes but none of the won the 2000 election and that makes President George Bush EVIL incarnate.

[Mr. Jeeves]

The only way to change world opinion is to simply stop intervening. After about ten years and a few million dead, their vision will begin to clear remarkably.

[Kaslin]

Ping

[Alouette]

Jack Bauer: "George Bush is my real father."

[BuffaloJack]

Thanks. This is an excellent and informative post.
"... the existence of Israel causes Muslims to kill Hindus, Buddhists, pagans and Christians across the planet."
For clarification there is a little redundancy here. We shouldn't confuse 'pagans' with 'heathens'. The term 'pagan' was applied to various cultures that embraced parts of Buddhist philosophies as Buddhism spread West a couple of millenia ago. The term Pagan was derived from the City of Pagan, Burma. Pagan was the capital city of Buddhist culture at the time of Christ. Those sect, cults and religions of Europe that adopted parts of this belief system (including the Celts of the British Isles) were referred to as pagan religions. Over time the association with Buddhism was lost to most people and only the term pagan remained.

[neverdem]

The Assault on the Grunts

The War Within Islam - The growing danger of the Sunni-Shiite rivalry. (Christopher Hitchens)

A Global Intelligence Briefing For CEOs by Herbert Meyer

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[tet68]

I would first apologize to all the widows and orphans, the tortured and impoverished, and all the many millions of other victims of American imperialism. Then I would announce, in all sincerity, to every corner of the world, that America's global interventions have come to an end."


Go ahead, FINISH IT!!!

...end that...America's global largess has come to an end, no more foreign aid of any kind, what so ever. Zero , zip , nada. Have a nice day.

[Coleus]

Death by Government

[gonzo]

"... Ann Wright (retired U.S. Army colonel and State Dept. official, now anti-war activist)..."

WTF?? Oh, I forgot - must be a klintoon bimbo ............ FRegards

[caver]

"Lebanon (Sabra) 1982. Christians killed 750 to 3,500 Palestinians."

This one I'll have to look up. I'm suspicious about this. If true, does it qualify as genocide or maybe self defense?