This is why communists and socialists have always been enemies of our government. It has nothing to do with them not being democratic, or with their human rights records or how they treat their people. It has to do with the fact that they want to nationalize major industry which means American corporations can no longer exploint the population of that country or their resources for profit.

If you look at the State Department's list of state sponsors of terror, you will find that almost every country on the list is a socialist country. Furthermore, if you look at the list over the years, you will find that countries typically were added to the list shortly after nationalizing major industry, and countries have typically been removed from the list after privatizing major industry that was previously nationalized or agreeing to allow in foreign investment.

Notice how Venezuela has now been added to the list shortly after nationalizing major industry. Also notice how Libya was recently removed from the list after agreeing to allow in foreign oil companies to their state run oil industry.

While they often talk about "evil" countries such as Syria, Iran, North Korea, etc., and they make it sound like the issues they have with such countries have to do with issues such as WMDs, democracy, and human rights, the reality is that it all has to do with economics. I would bet that whatever negotiations they have going on with Iran and with North Korea, they have absolutely nothing to do with nuclear weapons and have everything to do with economics. If an agreement is reached, they will then announce it in the context of that they came to an agreement regarding the nuclear weapons, but there will be much more to it than that.

For example, we now know that the State Department negotations with the Taliban in the summer of 2001 had very little to do with terrorism and turning over Osama bin Laden, and had more to do with negotiations to build an oil pipeline through Afghanistan. If the Taliban had agreed to their terms, they would still be in power.

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