Rus: Not saying you’re wrong. I’m saying you’re as biased as anyone in your reading of history, especially if what you present is so one-sided as to be completely off the beam.
I’ve participated in a war on behalf of this country that I felt was wrong. However, as I look back, I realize that sometimes the choices aren’t right or wrong, or black and white. Sometimes the choices are bad or worse. And, on balance, what we did ultimately was for a greater good.
You want to have the right to present your argument, but no interest in accepting that there are opposing points of view or that the argument itself is incomplete or flawed. How is that open-minded? I wasn’t trying to paint you into a corner, I just asked some questions.
This is akin to those people who walk around wearing t-shirts with Che Guevara on them. Somehow Che has become cool and hip and not at all the murdering Stalinist thug he actually was and poster boy for a system that ultimately killed 100 million people. I guess it’s all a matter of perspective, huh? That’s the cool thing about moral equivalency: Everybody, no matter how wrong they are, gets to be right.
