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[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by tw

Meanwhile, what tw posted is . . .

Curiously in the third person. Odd. Not the sort of thing I do.

Meanwhile, UG again takes cheap shots by quoting a UT post that contradicts what tw posted. Well that is logical and predictable since UG's routinely posts personal attacks on tw (and others); since UG has been caught repeatedly lying by tw. So where are all those fallen dominos in SE Asia?

North Vietnam, Laos, South Vietnam, and Cambodia, in approximately the order of their fall. You could count Burma in there somewhere if you like. I've told you this more than once, and more than once you ignore these data -- ignoring data is not honesty. The contiguous dominoes that didn't fall were Thailand and Malaysia, to their great good fortune. It wasn't all luck, but it had luckiness to it.

And post #76 is not a contradiction of any sort, but a satire. If you don't want to scroll back that far, see post #99, which quotes 76 in full.

Why UG is even posting is his need to post personal attacks on one who repeatedly exposes his lies.

I do not lie even to you, tw, and the whole Cellar knows it -- you are the one exception. I'm not here to steer you wrong, either -- see previous.

[richlevy]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

North Vietnam, Laos, South Vietnam, and Cambodia, in approximately the order of their fall. You could count Burma in there somewhere if you like.

I don't think lumping in a right-wing military Junta with communists would be a good idea.

BTW, the most damning statement I've ever seen of any government is in the CIA fact book on Burma.

the judiciary is not independent of the executive

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by richlevy

I don't think lumping in a right-wing military Junta with communists would be a good idea.

Though I do -- on the grounds that totalitarian regimes are fundamentally more alike than different. Dictatorship is dictatorship, no? That all such governments are much poorer at caring for a population's needs than democracies are hardly needs mentioning, and is among their salient characteristics.

When you've fallen into the heart of darkness, do you care what color it is?