>>Sure, but since when does that matter. Look at China, Myanmar, Zimbabwe, Tibet. The people are simply killed if they object to something. Until another more powerful entity steps in, the fact that the people care makes no difference.
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>>Which brings up the most baffling concept to me. How can a soldier turn on his own people? A tyrant like Than Shwe in Myanmar orders his soldiers to kill their own people, and they do it! Incredible.
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>You aren't much of a student of history then, are you?<g>
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>The Romans, the Germans, Chinese, Ruwandans, Iranians, Iraqis, etc. have all done this. It seems most of the countries that haven't tried to kill their own, have been western civilizations.

Oh, I know full well. What I said was that I don't understand how a soldier can kill his own people on the order of a tyrant, not that I didn't know it was happening.

As far as western civilisations are concerned, the U.S. civil war really wasn't all that civil. The other point is that western civilisations do it too, but they do it on a smaller and more isolated scale.