At 12:57 AM 9/15/01 +0200 J. van Baardwijk wrote:
>You are right on this one. Back then, the US spent USD 500 million per year
>(according to a news program on Dutch television yesterday) on arming and
>training Bin Laden's people.
Indeed, enlisting evil to fight evil seems like a brilliant tactic. After
all, everyone who dies in the battle between two evils benefits us.
It is also a rational response to a world in which the bad guys outnumber
the good guys. In this world, you enlist the least bad guys to destroy
the greatest evil. Once the greatest evil is gone, you then turn on the
next greatest evil, and so on.
To me, it is the most intelligent response to a dangerous world.
JDG
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"Freedom itself was attacked today, and Freedom will be Defended."
-U.S. President George W. Bush, 09/11/01
