Quote Originally Posted by Fuchs View Post
@Steve:
That's a typical point of view of Americans. Fact is that this might apply to some countries, but has no relevance about the general situation.
One could also contend that popularity polls have no relevance on the general situation. Also, I'd say that your laundry list of policy errors could equally apply to the Soviets at their peak (in spite of your assertion to the contrary), or just about any major power at any given point in time. Nothing new there.

You're entitled to your opinion, of course. It's always easier to look on the US as the great evil without examining some of the poor policy decisions on the part of other nations that allowed this situation to come to pass.