Lox, the tax dollars argument doesn't always work. CarolC uses the tax dollars argument to explain that she feels responsible for the US and Israel, and therefore she concentrates her attention most of all on them. I take note of that, no problem. But when she judges the US and Israel the two biggest problems and cause of problems in the world, I can participate to this discussion as well, because it is an universal assessment that we all can debate.

I posted a summary previously about the Freedom House Report 2010. I don't swear they are right (but I'm pretty sure CarolC is wrong), they propose a list of the countries with the worst human rights conditions, different from what CarolC says. Is it possible to discuss that? I think that the passionate defenders of human rights should be interested.

From the Report:

"Included in this report are nine countries judged to have the worst human rights conditions: Burma, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Also included is one territory, Tibet.

The report also includes eight additional countries near the bottom of Freedom House's ratings scale: Belarus, Chad, China, Cuba, Guinea, Laos, Saudi Arabia, and Syria. The two territories
of South Ossetia and Western Sahara are also included in this group."