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Originally Posted by Musicman
As you say, this is a forum regarding books and technology not Politics.
However, how dare you bash the British and the US Government and label them with human rights abuses. Where is your outrage against Islamic fundamentalist who behead prisoners, abuse women and commit terrorist acts against humanity!
If it weren't for the British and the United States of America everyone would be goose stepping under a Nazi flag.
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If a government commits human rights abuses, it certainly should be criticized for them, especially when that government self-righteously appoints itself the torch bearer of human freedom and democracy. What you've said is analagous to shouting down someone who documents police corruption by asking them why they aren't criticizing criminals. Because they are criminals, duh. That judgement alone is sufficient criticism.
How does detaining people indefinately without trial score one against terrorists (I presume you don't mean all Muslims who are strictly observant of their religion)?
Your analysis of WWII is extremely flawed as well. It was the Soviet Union which bore the brunt of the Nazi War Machine, beat it back, and reduced Hitler to a rat in a hole. The US and Britain spen much of the war fighting with the Germans over coloines neither side had a right to possess and bombing civilian targets such as Dresden, Hamburg, and Tokyo in an effort to terrorize the Axis into capitulating.