On Sun, 16 Apr 2017 12:52:01 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

Isn't it odd that the progressive liberals who talk so much about
rights of the downtrodden and oppressed seem to have little concern for
those who live elsewhere in the world.

No the odd thing is how specific we are about who we really care about
around the world and how we try to "free" them. Our goal seems to be
to replace whatever government they have with a US friendly dictator.
There is no better recent example than Egypt. The US celebrated the
Arab spring, gleefully watched them dump Mubarak, bragged about their
free elections and then did everything we could to get rid of the
democratically elected Morsi and reinstall a Mubarak apparatchik
because Morsi was not going to toe the line.