But to call the citizens under Park Chung Hee, Ferdinand Marcos, or General Suharto “free” is an abomination. The happy fact that Koreans, Filipinos, Thais and Taiwanese did eventually become free, or at least freer, is not so much to the credit of the US as it is to the people who fought for their freedoms themselves.
没错，对多数人来讲，生活在右翼亚洲强人的统治下总体来讲要强于沦为毛泽东、波尔布特、金日成和胡志明的臣民。但将朴正熙、费迪南德·马科斯或苏哈托将军统治下的人民称为“自由”却是对自由的一种侮辱。韩国人、菲律宾人、泰国人和台湾人最终获得自由、或至少状况改善的令人欢喜的事实与美国并没有太大的关系，而应该归功于这些国家为自由而奋斗的人民。