[Cyrus]

"No one holds the moral high ground" is a cute compact saying. It's sometimes true and at other times false.

Sorry. This is a statement that is either True or False. Read it again.

"So the fact that democracies treat their own people better than dictatorships do is unimportant or irrelevant?"

Everything you throw into the discussion can be relevant! The argument in the beginning was that Iraq was in cahoots with al-Qaeda. When that was understood to be a little hard to prove, WMDs and compliance to SC Resolutions were invoked. Not that the invasion is over, the Bush acolytes ignore that glaring lack of evidence of WMDs and start about Iraq being a "threat to the Middle East area" in general -- and we all know that dictatorships are more evil in dealing with other countries than democracies, etc etc.

Then, that argment too is easily debunked. So we are forced back to the old, tried and true imperialist slogan of liberating countries for their own good!

..Sure it's relevant! White Man's Burden? It never ceased to be.

"Care to speculate as to what would have happened had the Axis Powers defeated the Allies in WWII?"

Hear, hear. As Basil Fawlty used to shout "WHO WON THE DAMN WAR ANYWAY??"

P.S. Draw a list of the "totalitarian regimes" that the world policeman intends to club over the head next. Lots of tourists are anxious about where to go abroad this summer. And what places to avoid. Thank you.