>>>>>>>It would be idiotic to keep our defenses in Kansas and wait until they are needed on US soil.
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>>>>>>So, in retrospect, the USSR had all the good reasons to keep troops in Cuba?
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>>>>>The USSR had valid reasons to keep troops in Cuba.
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>>>>>The USSR, however, was bent on world domination and subjugation.
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>>>>Whereas the US was not. I get it.
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>>>Assuming that both USA and USSR wanted domination of the world, there is a big difference. The USA wanted it for the betterment of the American people and the USSR didn't give a damn about the their people. Big difference.
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>>I thought you would see through the propaganda of both sides. Betterment is not in just buying cars.
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>It's all propaganda. However, promoting democracy around the world is the goal of the entire western world,

Correction: "promoting few-parties-parliamentary system as the only possible form of democracy" instead of just "promoting democracy". And even that applies only to countries with dictators of the wrong color - for friendly dictators, no worry.

>not just the U.S. It does "supposedly" make the world a safer place (debatable after some mideast elections) rather than a world with dictators, despots, and maniacs in control of countries with real weapons and the ability to destroy other nations. The western world doesn't (supposedly) promote democracy around the world for the sole purpose of being in control. Has that goal been hijacked by capitalists goals at times? Of course.

Which times? All of them. Of course.

> However, assuming that if every democracy left every other nation alone would allow every country in the world to be safe and left alone is just plain naive.

Of course too - because there's always weapons to be sold, oil to be drilled, local dictators to be bought to open the local market for next wave of re/neo/colonization.

>Sometimes your messages sound more like sour grapes than objective viewpoints. I guess that happens to us all though...

Don't confuse cynicism with sour grapes.