Reply #43: True, they did [View All]

But they're continuing on with the same failed policies that led to the war in the first place. Many of Fujimori's allies are still in the government and still control the judiciary, and word has it that the Shining Path is making a comeback. They will probably never get to the level they were at during the height of the war, but they are still around, and still growing. Why is this? Because the same failed economic polices that led to the war are still going on today. Hell, Peru's current president was the same president at the time that everything went to hell. Not a good sign.

My point is that to really learn from the past, you have to look at it from an angle of why did these things happen and what can be done to prevent them. Going rabidly anti-commie, anti-American, anti-capitalist, whatever, does no good. Communism has good and bad things about it. Capitalism has good and bad things about it. Whenever we develop knee jerk reaction to things such as displaying a certain shirt that can mean many things but also be associated with certain bad things, nothing is solved, and it only adds to the hysteria.