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Re: cc: Re: too beautiful not to share
From: "Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 22:43:27 -0400
On 10/4/07, Dennis Henderson <hendomatic () gmail com> wrote:
Yes the US plays the game "the enemy of my enemy is my friend(for a while)" Yes the US armed IQ against IR in the 80's. Lesser of 2 evils (at the time.) The foreign policy at the time was to prevent the spread of communism wherever it occurs. Yes Donald Rumsfeld took part in that policy. So what? Should he have been shaking hands with the Ayatolla instead? Time goes on. Things change.
Some things change. Some things dont. Even though we have been bitten in the ass time and time again by arming violent psychopaths, I don't think that will change. The really stupid ideas behind this history of arming mass murderers are (as you so kindly pointed out):: "prevent the spread of communism wherever it occurs." and "the enemy of my enemy is my friend(for a while)" and "Lesser of 2 evils". These have been proven to be not only counter-intuitive, but also counter productive. If we are all about "freedom", why should you not be free to practice Communism if you want to? If Bob eats the heart of the guy who beat me up, he is probably not a good person to hang around (and I probably shouldn't give him chemical weapons either). If I have to choose between raping a baby and killing my sister, I would do neither. These phrases have been used to make people believe incredibly stupid foreign policies could actually work. Maybe if we tried exporting food and education rather than M16's and Missie Factories people might not try and blow us up so much. -JP P.S.: Exporting food as a guise to trick the starving into switching to Christianity doesnt count _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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