<p>“You do realize that a lot of these nations that “ignore basic human rights in order to stay in power, to line their own pockets through force and corruption, internment and propoganda…w/out any checks and balances that you take for granted” are American client states, do you? Let’s not start casting stones; it is not very becoming.”</p>
<p>Oh please. Just because we, like all other countries, associate with and support whomever we feel is in our national interests to do so…doesn’t mean we can’t criticize repression and corruption. The old line that everything is all America’s fault is just boring. There is very little audience for it anymore.</p>