Unfortunately, radical, brutal regimes don't simply pop like a soap bubble.
Honestly, it's terrifying that one of the most brutal regimes in the world is against me.
Psychiatrists who have studied the aftermath of other brutal regimes suggest that denial of the past can be harmful.
The desire to undermine or overthrow brutal regimes — to transform them into democracies — is irresistible for many Americans.
We cannot leave refugees fleeing to Europe from these very same terrorists and brutal regimes without safe haven.
She believed profoundly that reporting could curtail the excesses of brutal regimes and make the international community take notice.
Additionally, when someone in the United States suggests that torture is necessary to protect our national security, brutal regimes elsewhere are telling their citizens the same thing.
From there, it traveled to many of the continent's most volatile locales, becoming an instrument of violence in some of Africa's ugliest wars and for brutal regimes.
And when not backing brutal regimes, Western countries are trying to find ever-elusive "moderates" to work with on the ground.
Much has been made of the pullback in foreign bureaus by American news organizations, leaving brutal regimes uncovered and third-world corruption unchecked.
Whether that extends to brutal regimes laundering their stained reputations through London's £2bn-a-year lobbying industry is another question entirely.
