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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens
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Originally Posted by Skybird
for us outsiders, it is not to criticise that, or demand they must do like we want them to do, or think they should wish to do like we imagine they should.
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Yeah, that's what I thought. Double standard. If it's Bush or America, criticize. Anyone else, even if they are truly as bad or worse than you imagine the US is, hands off. |
Bush has caused the misery and suffering and death of far more people than Putin. Under bush, the Us detoriated and lost in power, wealth and prestige and trustworthiness. Under Putin, the middleclass got moderate gains in wealth, and modest wealth is spreading for more people in Russia than ever before in Russian history, while he called the oligarchs to discipline by showing them an iron-gloved fist. If you want to compare the record of Bush with that of Putin, Bush loses by a huge margin. Now that is some tough pill to chew on for you, eh? Double standards it is if seeing the splinter in the other's eye, but not the beam in one's own eye. Your nation after the past 8 years is in no position to hold moral lectures to other people and nations. Get off that high horse and clean your own house before pointing at the dirt of others. The negative legacy of Bush weighs multiple times heavier than that of Putinistan - and all the world must pay for your failures currently. And all too often foreign people must die for it, too.