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I've always thought our responsibility for introducing, arming, assisting, propping of a despot should include doing what we can to remove them and introduce stability. If we want to go back and correct actions that lead to the initial problem, sure, it deserves thought and action, again, to our ability. Neither should preclude the other. Should they?
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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