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Originally Posted by nawbut";p="
...you dont mean to suggest that Europeans are somehow singular in having traded with dictators, do you?
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No, but they just seem to have, how to put this, an affinity for them. They do have the history of George III, Hitler, Napoleon, Marx, Mussolini, etc. They traded with Vietnam during the vietnam war. They traded with iraq, not for strategic reasons like the US, but just to make money. They about sh_t their pants when the US wanted to bring in Pershing II's during the cold war to counter the soviets. "Don't be mean to the soviets, you'll upset them."
They are eager supporters of the UN, a conclave of scores of dictators, which puts the worst dictatorships on the hauman rights commission. And of course, they screamed bloody murder when the US moved in to take down Iraq, one of the worst dictatorships in the world at the time. It's just a lot of things over time, when added together, that gives the impression that they really don't have a problem with dicatators.