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Originally posted by Spanky
I was just trying to point out that there was a rational reason for the US to support authoritarian regimes that promoted economic growth. The liberals always argued that we supported them purely for imperialists reasons. Where instead those regimes ended creating systems were the people became prosperous and lived under democratic systems. What the liberals failed to grasp at there is a strong link between free markets and free governments. Many liberals argued that these countries would have been better of under socialist governments than under the capitalist authoritarian regimes. History has shown us that that position was very misquided.
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Instead of invading Iraq, we should have promoted free markets there? Weren't the people exploiting the oil-for-food program trying to do that?
