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Communism has been a handy boogie-man for the U.S.'s need to flex its military might. I doubt that most americans know what it means, but they surely know it's a very bad, evil thing that must be stopped. I'm pretty confident I know what it means, and it is a very bad, evil thing that must be stopp...

You neglected to mention the most striking difference: Hitler´s side lost, Kissinger´s side didn´t. Last time I checked, Vietnam was a communist country. I think Kissinger's side lost, although the degree of defeat was not so bad as Hitler's. The Cambodians, Laotians and Vietnamese didn't have an o...

You cut Hitler less slack than Henry Kissinger? Yes. In trying to think of why, here's what I came up with. Kissinger, and other Americans of his ilk, felt that whatever deaths they caused were a regrettable side effect of pursuing an important cause. ("Important" to them.) They might hav...

Or that great American hero, Orenthal James Simpson.

I wonder if he thought he was making the world a better place?

Alas, he died without ever fulfilling his life's work of finding the true killers.

Now there's an American story, for sure.

Which is to say that I agree motivation matters. It's just that some motivations might be judged as evil, regardless of how the person performing the act views his own motivation. Relating this to "Planet America" I think that lots of people, including Henry Kissinger, used military might ...

I doubt that they say, "How can I be more evil today?"... True, objective "evil" doesn't exist outside of D&D. That's why using the word can be problematic. Even if someone does something for their own benefit, they do it because they truly believe that it's the best thing t...

I don't believe any evil doer does what they do because they know and intend evil. I doubt that they say, "How can I be more evil today?" But the core of evil is deliberately doing harm to others for your own benefit. On the scale of global leaders, that means knowingly harming your enemi...

I've listened to "enemy" news for a very long time, and you are right about both sides. It's mind numbingly stupid. It's drivel. It's nonsense. I tend to prefer Democratic nonsense to Republican nonsense. Democrats seem to me to be more nonsensical on more things, but those things mostly d...

this feels so defeatist to me. What's your point? ..like we can't have a democracy because a variety of candidates might effect the duopoly negatively. You can have a democracy, but you can't guarantee that there's a right way to run an election in such a way that the correct candidate gets elected...

To blame Bobby for Biden's failure(s) is like blaming Nader for Bush. So....it's accurate? Maybe "blame" isn't the right word, but if Ralph Nader had announced he was dropping out a week before the election, Al Gore would have become President. If Ross Perot had not run, Bill Clinton woul...