Geo-Politics is very volitile, nobody ever stated any diffrent... to state that the very policies and alliences that protected the freedoms and liberties the Western world now enjoy are just as evil as the people that they unfortunatly kept in power is naive IMHO.
This is can be summed up as, we are A, since we might get fucked by B, lets fuck C, so we don't get fucked but B and C do.
Don't give me crap like this. The US was self-serving, JUST like the USSR. Both were imperialists. Political ideaologies are simply pretext to what was at stake. One one side people and their money and on the other side other people with their money.