On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> And none of this is new, including Bush's "freedom agenda".  That's
> just a rehash of the domino theory which roots itself in WWII.

And communism lost, mostly. So it sorta worked.

> More recently Carter tried a flavor in the middle east, Reagan
> continued with it, Clinton used it in the balkans and eastern europe,
> etc

Carter gave Iran to the Mullahs, nice work peanut brain. Opposite effect.

> On the more recent military side Bush Sr. declined to occupy Iraq, and

He stuck to his plan, get Saddam out of Kuwait.

> Clinton chose to use the UN in his invasion of the balkans, but it's

That was a disaster. Never trust the UN to do anything.

> all just flavors of the same policy concept that been around for 50
> years including other military interventions like Korea and Vietnam.

Nothing like that. This worked and the snowball is in motion.

> If we're going to credit Egypt's 2011 revolution to old US policies
> and presidents, let's at least give credit where it's due: the Truman
> doctrine from the 40s and Ike's Domino Effect from the 50s.

 Nope. Bush 43.



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