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Originally Posted by nexxo
Actually they are the same animal, just at different stages of development, so to speak. Dictators often start out as terrorists (or "freedom fighters" as they might prefer to call themselves). Especially as they are establishing themselves, cult of personality and ideology are paramount tools of the trade. A successful dictator rarely relies on fear and brutality alone --because people can turn fear to desperation and can get desensitised to brutality. If he does it right, Big Brother only has to be Watching You. If he does it right, you will not fear Big Brother, you will love him.
The aim of a terrorist, by the way, is not just to destroy authority, but to take it over.
You nicely illustrate my point about N. Korea: doing business with some parties simply will not work! But what if, say, it sat on enormous resources that we want to get our hands on? Option number two: change the guy in charge. How? Court local contenders to the throne who do look likely to do business with us in the future... in return for, say, some weapons and money now. OK, another example: why are you still boycotting Cuba? You could destroy Communism within a decade over there just by giving entrepeneurs there a healthy taste of the American Dollar. But that doen't happen, because he is your token Communist, just four hours out of Miami. You have a big lobby of ex-Cubans who might get pissed off. You cannot be seen to do business with him. Moreover, Cuba has got nothing to offer you.
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Honestly you really need to see with your own two eyes the well run dictatorship in action. You'll have a different perspective once you see it with our own eyes.
The point about North Korea is an example of us using our economic carrot to influence a dictatorship. I say again, you bated and switched. If you can see that it’s really not worth continuing to discuss. Dictators are driven by a different mode of operation from democracies. You are attempting to draw equivalence and that simply will work.
Cuba is a perfect example of lip service ideology. Castro talks about the "Revolution" but the reality is that he is a tin pot dictator. FYI Cuba has great economic potential it’s just strangled by sudo-communist economic ideals and a dictator. Further, they would be one of our largest trading partners if we decided to do business with them.