Intervention in domestic politics often cements dictators in place by uniting the people against what they see as foreign aggression. |
Some countries turned to dictators like Hitler for economic and political salvation. |
In foreign policy, its hard to claim the moral high road when you're stumbling down the low road arm-in-arm with repressive dictators. |
Right-wing libertarians in the US view Castro as one of the nastier dictators in the world. |
Switzerland is awash with retired dictators and kleptocrats with their millions. |
Somewhere even the dictators and autocrats who send ambassadors to dialogue with ambassadors from free states know that to be true. |