Dolphie Bush wrote: > I wrote: > > The fact that they are today's enemy of > > enemy would place them in the same category of other enemies of enemies > that > > short-perspective foreign policy in the past has supported, including that > > noted freedom fighter Osama bin Laden and that paragon of virtue Saddam > > Hussein.
and the reply was: > ????????????????? I wrote: > Loving my country it is very difficult to watch such lurching of > > support from one uninformed choice to another and the reply was: > ????????????????????????????? > Surely someone who claims to be informed on the issues knows that in the 1880s many of the same people now in the current administration were in the Reagan-Bush and Bush-Quyale administrations - and that those administrations supported the mujahadem, which included US support for Osama bin Laden, well known to the CIA and well regarded because he was so tenacious and able to recruit. That is not new news. bin Laden turned on the US when we placed troops in Saudi in Operation Desert Storm. bin Laden's instability and unstable relations with the US well also well known in the early 80s - but he was the enemy de jour of our enemy de jour. Part of bin Laden's ability to strike effectively at the US is that he after all has had the benefit of US training. Those same administrations also supported Saddam Hussein - right up until the invasion of Kuwait. After all, Saddam was the mortal enemy of Iran, and thus the enemy of our enemy... in 1990, in fact, just before the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, Senator Bob Dole representing the Bush-Quyale administration, toasted Saddam personally at an Iraqi state dinner. That is why loving my country makes it very difficult to watch such lurching of support from one uninformed choice to another. As long as US foreign policy is practiced on a short term basis rather than with long term perspectives, we will keep repeating the same mistakes.
