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Charles Krauthammer's article "Dictatorships and Double Standards" [ESSAY, Sept. 23] argued that past and current backing for dictatorial regimes is justified because they support the larger U.S. interests of fighting communism or terrorism. Krauthammer failed to mention that several of the dictatorships the U.S. has assisted were created by the U.S., often by destroying an existing democracy. Could Krauthammer's real point be that the U.S. should prop up dictators when democracy results in a government the U.S. dislikes? JEFFREY FRANK Arlington Heights...
...essay asserts that moral rectitude ought to play second fiddle in the conduct of statecraft. To treat the people of other nations as pawns in a geopolitical chess game is a damnable proposition. The U.S. enjoys unprecedented dominance in the economic and military spheres. We have witnessed a continual increase in the number of the world's democratic states. It is unconscionable to fritter away our moral capital by entering into Faustian bargains with thugs. Those pacts have yielded appalling results for Americans and the rest of the people of the world. VIJAY DANDAPANI New York City...
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