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This is just political theater of Obama's own doing. Barack Obama is an aberration in American politics. No country is immune.
In the immediate aftermath of his Presidency, there will be no shortage of accolades heaped upon him by starry eyed fawning admirers, from the ordinary people to the media elites who skewed their jobs for him. But once that love fest dies, and usually they do pretty quickly, objective historians will take over and will deliver a scathing review of his failure as a President. It started already.
The Amateur: Edward Klein: 9781621570905: Amazon.com: Books
Klein gave an excellent comparative analysis of Obama to past Presidents, including Kennedy who bumbled early but learned quickly to the good hearted but also bumbling Carter, and Obama rated lower than both. Granted, Klein is one of many and Obama will have his own cadre of professional pundits and historians who will give different opinions of his Presidency. But what both sides cannot deny are the facts, or accounts, of crucial events that inevitably compelled all Presidents to act and/or react. The politically streetwise ones generally were proactive and aggressive. Obama is not that type. He prides himself on being an intellectual, perhaps too much of an intellectual for the Presidency but that someone has to do the job, and that arrogance, as amply recorded by others and explained by Klein, made Obama a passive and reactive President, vulnerable to exploitation by the likes of Putin.
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I love it when you guys think you are civilized and others are savages, despite the fact that your countries have the darkest histories, have fought the majority of wars in history and are responsible for death and suffering of hundreds of millions of people in past century.
If being civilized means something like that, we people prefer to stay uncivilized.
But the West is the civilized world. Why do you think I (and millions of other Chinese, East Asians etc) move to the USA/Europe to study and work? Why is English the #1 language in the world? Why is American/British music and film thee most popular? Why is China and other emerging countries increasingly adopting Western culture?
Lets not be hypocritical!
In Iran women are abused in the name of Islam, young girls forced to marry old men. That is not civilized is it?
It`s true that modern world was created by Western (Colonial) powers for about last five centuries , but that doesn`t mean China or Iran is not "civilized" becuase they are not in the club , longevity of these civilizations/countries surpasses anything in Europe. The last remnant of antic world in Europe died in AD 1453 , China still stands as it was 2000 years ago.
But the West is the civilized world. Why do you think I (and millions of other Chinese, East Asians etc) move to the USA/Europe to study and work? Why is English the #1 language in the world? Why is American/British music and film thee most popular? Why is China and other emerging countries increasingly adopting Western culture?
Lets not be hypocritical!
In Iran women are abused in the name of Islam, young girls forced to marry old men. That is not civilized is it?
But the West is the civilized world. Why do you think I (and millions of other Chinese, East Asians etc) move to the USA/Europe to study and work? Why is English the #1 language in the world? Why is American/British music and film thee most popular? Why is China and other emerging countries increasingly adopting Western culture?
Lets not be hypocritical!
In Iran women are abused in the name of Islam, young girls forced to marry old men. That is not civilized is it?
The western world is build on greco-roman concepts.And yes you're more civilised when you have genuine democracies and your own citizens have far more rights than the individualis in CCP.Russia or Iran,and that's a fact no matter how much pain it causes the trolls that they live at the mercy of their "eternal benevolent leaders" who treat their people as sheep with no rights.We're not perfect but still far way in comparison with those countries.
And the West has today genuine democracy? With exception of few places , no. I always remember my Western educated professor "What is the best invention in history? Democracy , because you think you decide about anything and you don`t" . We all know this to be kinda a true.
Those Greco-Roman concepts came to Western Europe via Arab scholars , like the Averroes. Paris and London were small dirty villages compared to Baghdad 1000 years ago , today is quite different story , so things change over time. There should be no arrogant approach towards others and be under illusion of some God-given supremacy for eternity , that is a mistake.
Mostly they came through the Byzantine Empire,pls research before stating something.
I've said that the western world is not perfect but what do you want...to live under a Putin style dictator who promptly ships any opposition to jail,under a mullah regime who tells how you should behave to please God,or a one party state like China??...No thanks dude,you,voscko and the others go for it but it's not for me,i prefere to stay in this "illusion".
I did my research long time ago , if you did the the same thing you would know who Averroes is and his importance for European history. Byzantine scholars were also important but no one is close to Ibn Rushd of Cordoba.
6 million people (out of 35 million , Iran population in 1979) came to put new regime in power , who are we to judge them.
Putin is not a dictator , autocratic yes. You have a lot of opposition in Russia and only few of them are in jail. Would you like vote for a guy that says two months before bankruptcy in 1998 that everything is fine with finances of the country? I think not , so most of Russians think the same, the guy i`m talking about is Boris Nemtsov , so called leader of opposition. Opposition sucks and it`s not Putin fault.
Thanks for proving my point, Indian.
So basically you're telling me that Averroe is the reason of the Renaissance? One guy,altough an exceptional one? You must be bonkers,and from what i know he was a secular.I was not judging anyone but i like our system better and for all your worthless blaberring you can't proove that those countries have anything that i should admire when it comes to how they are ruled.
Averroes made a translation and explanation of Aristotle works and ideas , he was known in the West as "The Translator". You should really try to read about the guy and then draw some conclusions.
Be realistic , do you really think that average guy in Moscow or Tehran have reasons to admire your country Romania and also my country. Like you dont`t see anything positive in them they think the same about us.
A lot of people died but 60 million is simply an exaggeration , you often hear about GULAG , but death rate did not exceeded 1,6 million people by all accounts.
Also i don`t know where did you learn about "5 million Soviet POW" killed as traitors , this is simply rubbish. Soviet POW were killed en masse by Nazis and it is well documented. And also with the exception of Stalingrad POW most of German POW returned alive to their homes unlike other way around....
"Hitler himself urged Red Cross inspection of [German] camps [holding Soviet prisoners of war]. But an appeal to Stalin for prisoners' postal services received a reply that clinched the matter: 'There are no Soviet prisoners of war. The Soviet soldier fights on till death. If he chooses to become a prisoner, he is automatically excluded from the Russian community. We are not interested in a postal service only for Germans'."
"When the Germans approached the Soviets, through Sweden, to negotiate observance of the provisions of the Geneva Convention on prisoners of war, Stalin refused. The Soviet soldiers in German hands were thus unprotected even in theory. Millions of them died in captivity, through malnutrition or maltreatment. If Stalin had adhered to the convention (to which the USSR had not been a party) would the Germans have behaved better? To judge by their treatment of other 'Slav submen' POWs (like the Poles, even surrendering after the [1944] Warsaw Rising), the answer seems to be yes. (Stalin's own behavior to [Polish] prisoners captured by the Red Army had already been demonstrated at Katyn and elsewhere [where they were shot]."
While communism indeed sucks and turn out to be major failure , things should not be blown out of proportion.