"Not invading other countries, but not supporting and arming known tyrants because they were "ours"

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Tom Brosz — 3/5/2005 9:54:31 PM (archived)

In other words, putting our heads in the sand and hoping the bad guys just go away. I'm not seeing a lot of "revolutionary power" here.

I don't like our history of supporting anti-Soviet dictators any more than you do. But the alternative was simply to let Soviet-backed communist movements pretty much eat much of the Third World and Middle East. You think that would have improved things today? Does not giving one side guns and bombs accomplish anything when a totalitarian empire is giving guns and bombs to the other side?

The infrastructure in Iraq, except for favored areas like Baghdad, was crap when we got there. The people rebuilding it say much of the power, water and sanitation systems were, for all intents and purposes, being held together by baling wire.

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And now for something completely different... - Tom Brosz - 3/4/2005 5:43:14 AM
- Fanatics never let reality interfere with their thought processes. - David F Mayer - 3/4/2005 6:24:34 PM
  - Great heading, you invited me in to read what you had to say.... - Publius - 3/5/2005 5:57:50 PM
  - Never a truer word was typed - Tony - 3/4/2005 7:15:38 PM
    - Well At Least Your Title Bore Some Semblence To Reality (n/t) - Mark Eby - 3/5/2005 4:37:41 AM
- -sigh- - Mary Anne - 3/4/2005 5:59:05 PM
  - Ask Clinton - Mark Eby - 3/5/2005 4:34:28 AM
    - And Reagan. And Bush I. - Mary Anne - 3/5/2005 12:32:42 PM
      - I Do Blame All Past Participants - Mark Eby - 3/5/2005 4:32:29 PM
  - re: Mourners - Tom Brosz - 3/5/2005 3:34:48 AM
    - Not invading other countries, but not supporting and arming known tyrants because they were "ours" - Mary Anne - 3/5/2005 12:26:22 PM
      - "Not invading other countries, but not supporting and arming known tyrants because they were "ours" - Tom Brosz - 3/5/2005 9:54:31 PM
        
        We have a history of supporting thugs who support us "strategically" and economically. - Mary Anne - 3/6/2005 5:00:26 PM
        
        re: We have a history - Tom Brosz - 3/6/2005 6:21:58 PM
        
        When you have to make excuses for the government you usually get testy with people. Have you noticed that? - Mary Anne - 3/7/2005 1:34:57 AM
        
        He soirtanly does - tony - 3/7/2005 4:58:45 AM
        
        "nations whose authority comes from principle" Got any examples? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 3/7/2005 4:13:15 AM
  - re: -sigh- - gbaikie - 3/4/2005 8:17:16 PM
    - War is not equal to murder and mayhem: got it. - Mary Anne - 3/4/2005 8:25:21 PM
      - re: War is not equal to murder and mayhem: got it. - gbaikie - 3/4/2005 10:09:49 PM
  - Lemon Curry? - DL - 3/4/2005 6:03:59 PM
    - re: Lemon Curry? (n/t) - kris kringle - 7/20/2005 6:11:26 PM
    - re: Lemon Curry? (n/t) - kris kringle - 7/20/2005 6:11:10 PM
    - Full frontal nudity - Mary Anne - 3/4/2005 6:08:32 PM

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