Backing Saddam was a great idea back in the day. The long Iran-Iraq war
paid off handsomely for the west. Two nasty regimes at each other's throats
for 8 long, bloody years guaranteed the West a healthy, properly
functioning oil market. In Iran, the war accelerated a huge demographic
shift that eventually toppled the "hard-line" mullahs.
In fact, the Iran-Iraq war was a good thing for just about every country on
Earth save Iran & Iraq.
And the US didn't just back Saddam because of our own direct interests.
Every state in the Middle East was(and to some extent still is) terrified
of Khomeini. Both the secularists AND the religious Arabs were very
supportive of our actions. We definitely scored brownie points in the Arab
world during that war.
And what could be really wrong with supporting the Afghan resistance in its
fight with the Soviet Union? The effects of the Afghan war played a
critical part in the eventual fall of the USSR, easily the 20th Century's
greatest evil.
Dave Fobare
>Sadly, this is mostly too true. We also back and armed Saddam Hussein. -Gary
> > I found this article to be very interesting...
> >
> > http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,551036,00.html
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