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"Tyrant enabling excuses"?
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Pardon me if [a] I don't buy in to the whole load of pop-psych crap called "enabling"; [b] don't know what the f*** you're talking about.

But I'm going to take a guess, and respond like this: the foreign policy of the United States has been "enabling" tyrants since the Eisenhower Administration (and probably earlier, see also Josef Stalin), whenever it suited the immediate purpose. From 1946 to 1989 +/-, it was anyone perceived to be anti-Communist.

For instance: the last Shah of Iran: every bit as tyrranical to his own people as was Saddam (except I don't think he ever gassed whole villages, but he might've and we'd never know). The revolution that put Khomeni in power and eventually took our Tehran embassy staff hostage turned the nation of Iran from ally to enemy. The common people themselves had not changed... but, when they became The Enemy it was perfectly all right for Our New Friend Saddam to gas them.

Bush II's overseas incompetence is neither excused by, nor a cure for, the incompetence of previous adminstrations. It merely assures that we will be paying for it - at the very least monetarily - for years to come.

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