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That is absolutely right.
I'm not considering anything as Gospel Truth, Steve.
Speaking about the West here, as I just said : to me, most people just live everyday with a certain degree of credulity and ingenuousness making them think everything their politics/army/country's elite do gets to be done with no more than their national interest in mind.
And the only thing I'm saying here is that it is not the case all the time
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Most of the people here can agree with that.
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Watching tv everyday or so, most people from the West got their brain lying down in their bathtub filled with self-righteousness, caring only about what they think themselves, just as if the West was more virtuous than any other part of the world. And you've reacted the way I expected any Western guy to while reading this kind of article I've posted above : anyone living in the West gets to be very surprised and pretty much shocked, thinking something going along the lines of "hey, wtf, wth is that, so you can find people thinking another way than we do in the West... Incredible ! How the hell is it possible, I can't believe that, that's propaganda".
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People in different places think differently about same issues obviously.
Generally speaking every one cares for his side of pond , his own country or his family and so on.
Nothing new , just banal truth.
In some countries with relative hardship , limited freedom poor living conditions those feelings are fed to the people more than elsewhere with minimum possibility of self criticism.
In the west people are fed bull as well yet are free to criticize if they chose to.
For most part people simply live their lives and walk along populist lines and all is good.
Yet we have a choice to see things in different way.
You on another hand take it to extreme and imagine that you see the light...
In countries you defend you would get your ball stuck in your mouth with your attitude or if feeling like wasting resources you would be send to mental institution...probably in the more liberal one of your favorites.
So what drives you?
I can relate with Bashar Assad of Syria and his tribe but why should i?
Possibly the crude way Syria or Iraq had been run was the only way to maintain stability and some sort of "normal" life in those countries but then again... it does not mean i should agree with their point of view or relate to it...those people murdered and tortured own citizens with their tribes acting as the elites you like to complain so much about....
No other tribes are murdering them and each other...or it is Suni vs Shi"te ...another day in ME.
The only reason a free person can defend those regimes is by having agenda or common interest -plain and simple.
Might be insanity or stupidy as well...maybe you want attention at all coast..trying to be original-not like rest of the crowd??
It is not empathy for sure.
So lets now weep for Kim Jong-il he deserves to have his own views after all.