On Feb 27, 2010, at 6:29 AM, Subash wrote: > On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:16:46 +0800 > Sandy Harris <sandyinch...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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. > > and i think you are understating the case: both al qaeda and saddam > wouldn't have become what they were/are but for US backing and material > support...that's what i meant by 'US creations'... > I think that's true, but the alternative may have been worse: a mega Iran and a strong Soviet presence in the middle east. There's no way to flip the switch and see what might have happened if Afghan and Iraq hadn't had U.S. support back in the day. Paul > > > -- > 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.
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