From: John K Clark (jonkc@att.net)
Date: Fri Dec 27 2002 - 09:10:00 MST
"Harvey Newstrom" <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com> Wrote:
> Before getting rid of the Taliban we supported the Taliban.
The USA never supported the Taliban but it did support people who would
years later become the Taliban. It must have seemed like a good idea at the
time, they were fighting evil, the USSR, and nobody predicted they would
resent the USA for having helped them, I don't fully understand it to this
day.
>Before Iraq was our enemy we supported them against Iran
True and that was a mistake, the USA makes lots of mistakes, but again I can
see why it looked like a good idea at the time.
> It is a complicated situation and it is not clear that what
> the US does is good.
Many thing are morally ambiguous but not everything is, going to war against
Afghanistan one year ago was a flat out good idea, I'll let you know in one
year if the war with Iraq was equally wise.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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