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From: "Andrew Crystall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 9:18 PM
Subject: Re: Arming Our Enemies Re: Preparations
> On 14 Sep 2001, at 21:36, John D. Giorgis wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> So arming the KLA was smart? Oh yeah, they were armed by the
> western world, and quite well. Of course, that lead DIRECTLY to
> the troubles we have presently in Macodonia...
>
> Deal with devils, and you create..well...more devils.
>
> Sorry, pull the other one.
>
> Andy
> Dawn Falcon
>
