20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

If only Obama had sent a simliar message to Iranian protesters. "We've got your back." That's all you have to do.

"I would say it's unfair to dismiss ANY idea as purely evil, "

You must be a europeeon, to think NO idea can be "purely evil" - sophistry like yours allowed over a hundred million to be slaughtered by Hitler, Stalin and Mao - but , hey, whats a few broken eggs in the omelette if we can achieve your "post modern" paradise, right comrade?

SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS.

@jpeditor
So only a European is capable of believing in granting everything its fair chance?  Hell, sort of makes sense, actually.

Disregarding that, I am strongly opposed to all three of the tyrants you had named, but saying that they discredit socialism as a form of government is not unlike claiming that the Inquisition discredits Christianity.

Truth be told, I know very little about the socialist, archetype, I think the most proper word would be. I'm only sure of . . .

@jpeditor
. . . Something to the effect of government being an all-encompassing entity or something of the same tone, which even that issue I am rather doubtful of.

Again, though, I'll reassert that I think that not granting every possibility a chance is, at its most innocent, naive, or else xenophobic.

"It prevents national economies from seamlessly integrating with the global economy."

Are you an idiot? Ogabe hasn't destroyed our economy enough and now you want us affiliated by Mexico and COMPLETELY on our knees to bankers in China?

oh please, go back to the hope and change thing. Now you REALLY sound like an idiot.

"go back to the hope and change thing"
I can't go back. I was never on the "hope and change" band wagon!

"you REALLY sound like an idiot."
sounding like an idiot is far better than being a fucktard like you.

@kmg501 " It is also important to understand that his influence was built on the back of reinvigorating the Military Industrial Complex..." - well we all know that the Dems did so much before Reagan to end communism, especially with flower power.... / sarcasm off

We just need to put a wall up to keep people out.

Why do you care about America or Germany??