From: Kai Becker (kmb@kai-m-becker.de)
Date: Mon Jan 27 2003 - 16:21:57 MST
Am Montag, 27. Januar 2003 17:06 schrieb Dehede011@aol.com:
> Still, if you go over every contention you made you will find
> that we helped the enemy of our enemy and we helped that enemy of our
> enemy in the most effective way we could find. [...]
> So where do you find justification to complain because we have helped a
> Moslem country here or there?
Even in the 80s, everone knew that Taliban and Mujaheddin were religious
fundamentalists who would never follow western values, but could easily
convert into the same West-hating breed that ruled Iran at that time. And
US intelligence knew pretty well that Saddam has always been a ruthless
dictator.
I just want to point out that supporting groups with a high probability
of becoming future enemies is not a wise strategy. An even more unwise
strategy is to support bad guy A against bad guy B, then fear A getting
to strong and support bad guy C against A. That's a straight line to the
Goedel number of foreign policy.
Kai
-- == Kai M. Becker == kmb@kai-m-becker.de == Bremen, Germany == "Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced"
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