Re: Wish I'd thought of this one.
Mike Findlay <[email protected]>
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>Yes it did. The soviets at the time were our enemy and supplying the Mujahadeen >helped them defeat the Soviets and deter them from expansion. That is the real >politik and it was the right >thing to do at the time. >It's the same with supporting Saddam in his war with Iran. The enemy of my >enemy is my >friend, even if only temporarily. > >>So the best foreign policy is one that looks no farther than the immediate >>present?<< No. But it does calculate the immediate benefits vs future unknowns/risks. Its very easy to look back and say we should have done something differently, and sometimes we should have but in both the Afghanistan, (arming the mujahadeen), and Iran/Iraq war we made the right call. Consider the alternative outcomes had we not done those things. Mike F. -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot