The same was true in the Philippines, Taiwan, Indonesia, and Thailand, and, indeed, in the Middle East, where democracy is yet to take root. As long as the Cold War lasted, US administrations consistently favored military strongmen and civilian dictators in the name of fighting Communism – anything to keep the left down, even the kind of left that would have been regarded as simply liberal in the democratic West.
菲律宾、台湾、印尼、泰国的状况也十分类似，甚至在尚未建立民主体系的中东地区，局势也大体如此。只要冷战继续下去，美国政府就一直以反对共产主义的名义支持军事强人和平民独裁者——支持任何能够压抑左翼运动的势力，甚至连那种在西方民主世界中会被看作是自由主义的力量也不例外。