Reply #21: Mao, Stalin and bush [View All]

[sweetheart]

Hitler is deemed evil in every regard, and IMO, the most similar to bush of the lot.

Mao and Stalin are special cases where the mass murders must be seen in the context. Mao lead the chinese "french revolution" and many were killed. To say that all the deaths of the revolution are due to an evil man is a bit simple, and though certainly i find him an evil man, the long term result of the communists in china may indeed be a modern nation that grows more tolerate of diversity than the US... so the jury's still out in one sense.

Given 20 million dead and a rather unpleasant war, stalin lead a nation to survive.. and leading a nation in war where millions are killed is never simple. Had he been a sweetie democrat, likely russia would not exist today, but as an eastern province of the german eastern reich.

These names have been removed from their historical context along with their death counts, as if these men went about with guns and individually shot all those people, and as if they were purely evil to be so complicit in mass murder.

Methinks a much greater lesson of history is to see that these were just men, and that they made mistakes like we all do in life.... and in seeing these men in how they are similar to us in the judgement seat, we learn more about our own darker natures and how they can subvert even the noblest of intentions.

Lincoln could similarly be put in the evil man list, as an authoritarian president that killed 2% of his nation's people and 140+ years later have endemic racism and repression of blacks that still borders on slavery conditions... and a national pasttime in unfettered capitalism that has created more slaves in our modern time than ever before in human history... really slaves...

Mass murder and war is wrong on all counts. Anyone who leads such an agression is a criminal, even if it is to unseat another criminal, as it was not saddam who paid for the criminal bushavik war, but 10's of thousands of civilians that the bush murderers overlook in considering what the right to life implies.