I, frankly, feel rather than rewarding and enabling a dictatorship, because I do believe that the line of succession--we have seen this--you know, the great hopes that people had falsely about Vietnam--and this seems to be a Vietnam model.
Smith criticizes enabling dictatorships instead of prioritizing human rights.
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