Is communism still a legitimate threat to the United States?
920574
Is Communism a threat, no.  Are countries that are led by Communist Parties a threat.  Yes.  Nobody can deny that there have been seroius threats to world security by countries that rally behind a banner of Communism.  Even though the Communist societies do not really in many respects reflect the Ideals of Karl Marx.  Think of a Communist country that has a decent standard of living and looked after it's own people.  Now try think of one that didn't.\n\nI do not believe that a country that has a long track record of violating the human rights of their own citizens and filtering and in some cases deleting information and freedom of expression can really be trusted.  Say what you like about America, but the most basic of freedoms enjoyed in America are like heaven to the average peasant in China.  \n\nAlso have a look at the foreign policy initiatives.  They are along with Russia one of two Permanent Security council members who are making a united concensus difficult in the UN with regards to Iran.  In addition to this they are supporting corrupt reigemes in Africa just when the world was begining to get a stomach about dealing with these broken states.  Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe refered to China a "close friend and ally"\n\nNeither one of these societies is perfect, however in this case it is a choice between the lesser of two evils.  And the US wins that by a long shot.  Maybe Communism isn't a threat, but the countries who claim to be Communist certainly are.
1079474
You mean communism?  If so it was practiced in Soviet Union(Russia) and in its satalite countries(mostly Eastern Europe nations controlled by the Soviets), but spread into Vietnam and China where it still is today.
169098
partly, yes. Cuba, as you know is a commie country who hates America (or at least Fidel Castro does). I think bush is too paranoid...
218313
It seems highly unlikley that the west will be ablew to keep a chockehold on the world forever, although it will be a while yet. Just look at 9/11, and how many westerners are killed in the middle east every day. A lot of people dislike america (and be "america" i mean the allies wholl do anything to keep on her good side cough britain cough) But im british, i live in ebgland, and my father nearly died when lodon was attcked in july. \n\nBut keeping on subject, I dont really understand why china is under such suspicion, they have made no aggresive military movments, no secret nuclear program, and have not yet been blamed for any attcks on america. Its yet another witch hunt, random peole were blamed for deaths of catlle in the 16th/ 17th century, communists blamed for various problems, and now no communist threat? What will do with all this money? Another threat needs to be created, and finally we have found a threat that will never ever leave. People who dislike us. I dont blame them.\n\nSo, no, it wont be a Communist China or a Muslim soceity that destrys us all, who do we have to blame for warmongering, and damging lives but ourselves?
161749
Yes. Cuba at the time posed a significant threat to the United States, since it was closely allied with the USSR diplomatically, and was only about 60 miles from Miami, one of the US' largest cities. A war fought there could have meant the end of the United States.\n\nAlso, the Madison Doctrine technically makes US intervention in Latin American politics allowed, although it is a distasteful piece of legislation. Still, it is essential to American national security.\n\nIt was poorly executed because Castro knew what was happening, and the invasion was poorly planned. The CIA trained exiles were also expecting massive amounts of internal help from Cubans, but they were disappointed. Almost no one showed up at the party.
699440
we were trying to stop Communism.  there was a thing called the domino effect and it said if it starts to spread to another country then it will fall onto the next country and so on.
1130779
WHY DO???huh?  I'm American and I'm not afraid of Russia.   Vladamir Putin is a commie hell bent on making Russia a commie country again, but that's been proven time and time again that communism/socialism just doesn't work.  Sooo, really, there is nothing to be afraid of, I don't know WHY you think this.
696310
To the answer above, communism is an economic system. The totalitarian regime in the Soviet Union gives it a negative connotation.
310846
To those above, all because we've been wiretapping before doesn't make it any more 'right'.  Slavery went on for hundreds of years, and it still wasn't 'right'.  Besides, according to the 4th Amendment of the Constitution: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause".\n\nFor those of you who have 'nothing to hide', you'd be surprised about how quickly the tide can turn.  During the McCarthy era, merely saying some thing remotely related to communism to the wrong person was enough to get you under the eye of the FBI.
923003
Your question is the dream of American Communists who continue to insist - nearly two decades after the fall of the Soviet Union - that Communism didn't fail it was just never really tried. I think they all need to take another long hit on their bong and move on. Human beings are social creatures, but basically interested in self-preservation, we will never submit our individuality to the will of a collective and adopt a hive mentality. Which is the reason that our system, for all its flaws, is the most successful in the history of the world. It's the most natural state for human beings in which to prosper.
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The US was afraid of the "domino" effect.  They felt it necessary to stop the spread of communism because they felt if they did not stop it in Vietnam, the rest of the countries would be taken over by the communists.  I believe they took over from France.
1040059
Constant government propaganda- it's the same reason we hate/fear terrorists now. Marxist communism had high military ambitions, and we were concerned that they might make a bid for world domination.
767693
Yeah...... wouldn't suprise me! but if the U.S.A. is going to be communist: They better prepare for a civil war! cause I know of alot of people who would rather die than give up their freedom! If our government would try communism they would be overpowered by the people! and our military service men and women would be wiped out by civillians. They aren't that stupid! Thats suicide! And they won't nuke us because they would destroy themselves in the process sense they would be bombing their own country! A civil war against the American people would result in the death of all government branches. Civilians would be taking over the white house.
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In a nutshell, Communism, at least as interpreted by the Bolsheviks, would lead inevitably to world domination.  Only after the world was under one governemnt could the utopia exist where everything got distributed equally and every one sang and danced all day, etc.  The United States, however, was and still is a sovreign nation not part of comintern (the Soviet term for the allied Communist states falling under the Warsaw Pact; the rest of the world referred to this as the Second World, however).  As such, the United States and its allies were seen as prime targets for Soviet spying and espionage with the vision in mind of subverting sovreign nations and republics the world over so that atheistic communism would reign.  Sen. Joseph McCarthy and many of his colleagues at the time fought tirelessly to expose Soviet agents working in sensitive governemnt positions, but many communist sympathizers slandered the good Senator and his efforts and so his name is continually defamed to this day.  A lot of thanks to a man who only tried to keep America alive...
695126
You asked a very complex question.\n\nThe terrorism that we are seeing today goes back to around the 70s possibly even the 60s.\n\nBasically it was in its early stages right after the Vietnam War. Our country, the USA,  was in what is called the 'containment' stage where we were trying to bring down communism. We believed it endangered our capitalist economic structure and decided to go to any extreme to conquer it.\n\nWe went as far to supply weapons to B. Laden in his efforts to counter the Russian, communists, invasion of Afghanistan. We also went as far to supply Iran Contra militias with arms in their effort to internally conquer Iran.\n\nBut, when Reagan achieved the goal of getting the Soviet Union to convert to capitalism in 1984, we wiped our hands of the promises we had made to all these militia groups.\n\nWhat we are seeing now is a direct result of some ticked off ppl that we made a lot of promises to that we broke.\n\nThat is one part... the rest would take me a book to explain involving imperalism, ignorance and vast movements of propagandaon both sides.
877078
Yes it's only a slight difference... In Asia communism is the chief underlying political movement... In the US, socialism is the primary force guiding the leftist - moving government we have had now for over 12 years.
1127438
Whatever the reason, it's false The usa has  distorted view of socialism, they are staunch supporters of capitalism They loathe communism to the point of paranoia.But they're not afraid of cuba or anyone else