不久前曾经写过“不自由的国家是怎么来的”， 因为美国对苏联和中国政权的敌对和威胁，造成了苏联和中国的“不自由”。
我也在这里多次阐述了，民主是作为一个推翻别国的意识形态的武器。
上礼拜WSJ，刚好有一书评「American Empire」。 该书作者刚好也阐述了类似的观点：美国的反共意识，使得苏联变成敌对国，导致国际紧张，和美国的军事化。 如果不是那样的话，苏联的流放，中国的大跃进，甚至柬埔寨的大屠杀或许是可以避免的。
大家就空可以去读一读.
部分摘要:
The author's views of the Cold War hark back to the hoary "moral equivalence" argument popular in the days after Vietnam, which saw the U.S., not the Soviet Union, as the primary instigator of the Cold War. Mr. Freeman says that it was America's anticommunist "ideological crusade" that turned the Soviet Union into a hostile rival, creating "international tension and conflict and an increasing militarism of American society."
The gulag, Mao's Great Leap Forward, Soviet adventurism in the Third World and the toxic Marxism that led to the Cambodian killing fields might never have happened. In "American Empire," President Nixon's supposed misdeeds in Cambodia get several pages, Pol Pot none at all. Mr. Freeman even sees the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979—the real start of the tragedy there today—as a reasonable response to CIA support for the rebels fighting the puppet government that Moscow had installed three years before.
