Seems a little provincial to me...
Okay, so I guess the tens of millions of communist-caused deaths that were NOT in Western Europe don't count? Seems a little provincial to me. Since communism and fascism have caused very few non-war-related deaths in the U.S., maybe I should just suspend judgement.
It should also be noted that without the immense battery of American nuclear missiles protecting Western Europe from the Eastern Bloc throughout the Cold War, there probably wouldn't be a Western Europe.