On 2/27/10, Subash <pdml.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > elsewhere all along, and i would just like to say that both al qaeda > and saddam were creations of the US in their proxy wars against the > former USSR and Iran respectively. one has to be really naive to play a > politics of convenience and not expect it to boomerang badly sometime > or the other...
I agree with the basic notion that many of America's difficulties are brought on by their own policies. If you'd called Taliban a creation of the CIA and Pakistani intelligence, I'd have agreed with that, too. However, I think you are overstating the case; the examples you give seem wrong to me. Certainly Al Qaeda had a role in the Soviet vs Afghan war, and were heavily backed by the US ally (some would say puppet) Saudi Arabia, almost certainly with US approval. For all I know, they may have had US aid as well. However, that is rather different from being a "creation of the US". As for Saddam, he was vice president and a key player in the Iraqi gov't from about 1970, back when the Shah was still in power in Iran and a close US ally. You cannot blame the US for creating Saddam's regime either. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
