06-10-2016, 06:41 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-10-2016, 06:41 AM by Anthony '58.)
But, to the extent that America was sometimes "wrong" during the Cold War - supporting nun-raping death squads in El Salvador, and even the apartheid tyrannies in Rhodesia and South Africa - it was necessary to defeat the Communists, who sought to take over the world. Similarly, supporting Stalinist Russia - which not for nothing murdered four times as many civilians as Nazi Germany - was necessary to stop the Nazis.
"These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation" - Justice David Brewer, Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 1892