So Incredibly Relevant

Recently, someone was kind enough to point me in the direction of Ayn Rand's writings.

And out of everything I saw, nothing was as striking or relevant as her view on dictatorships. Rand herself fled from Soviet Russia as a young woman, moving to America in an effort to avoid Stalinism back home. Her views on ethics seem so in-line with Gurmat. If anyone has the time, read the analysis of her view on ethics in the link I provided above. One passage from her book, The Virtue of Selfishness (written in 1963), which developed her view on ethics and ethical theory is really, so true:

Dictatorship nations are outlaws. Any free nation had the right to invade Nazi Germany and, today, has the right to invade Soviet Russia, Cuba or any other slave pen. Whether a free nation chooses to do so or not is a matter of its own self-interest, not of respect for the nonexistent "rights" of gang rulers. It is not a free nation's duty to liberate other nations at the price of self-sacrifice, but a free nation has the right to do it, when and if it chooses.

She goes onto talk about how the right to invade outlaw dictatorships is conditional on the intention to build free societies, built on the principles of individual rights; but really, who cares about individual rights anyway? Bush is a crook: who cares if people end up being happy or free in the end. As long as the entire universe is depressed, unhappy and angry because they realize that Bush is a thief, everything will be okay, all of our problems will be solved.