Read the excerpt below and answer the question. To those new states whom we welcome to the ranks of the free, we pledge our word that one form of colonial control shall not have passed away merely to be replaced by a far more iron tyranny. We shall not always expect to find them supporting our view. But we shall always hope to find them strongly supporting their own freedom—and to remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.
In the analogy about the tiger at the end of this excerpt from President John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address, who is likely analogous to the tiger?
1. capitalist countries
2. colonial countries
3. communist countries
4. democratic countries