There are also photos of Reagan and Brezhnev smiling and shaking hands
too...and Reagan considered the USSR an evil empire. We chose to deal
with Iraq, just as we chose to deal with Syria, Communist China, the
Taliban
for a while, etc. I'm not really sure what you think we should have
done.
Just boght oil from these countries but not have any contact?
of course not, but i think a better foreign policy would be to support
leaders who use the oil revenues for peaceful purposes. the US did not
found the baath party, but we should support more moderate arabs.
the fact that it is ALREADY IS a war between shi'ite and sunni is why
we should never have invaded, or remain...
jlm
In hindsight, the best thing to do with Iraq is let Hussein stay in
power, keep the low level war going to minimize the torture and killing
(to an estimated 30k deaths/year, and try to keep the sanctions for as
long as possible.
It appears to me that you view the US as much more influential than I
do. I see us as having difficult and limited options during the
Iraq-Iran war. You see us as creating Hussein and strongly supporting
him. If that were true, why did he have so little in the way of US
arms in 1991?
Do I understand your viewpoint correctly? If not, how does it vary
from my
interpretation?
Dan M.
you are mostly correct...
jon
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