The reason to stop the spread of communism was just plain good capitalistic business sense - remember that communism just after WWII was thought to seriously be about "taking from the rich to give to the poor"... not just another type of political power grab...

When I was a litle kid, I believed that communists were evil...

I've grown up. Now I belive that they were no more eveil than "the good guys" - it's just that they weren't us... or U.S. :-)

Robin