-- On 18 Dec 2003 at 14:07, Michael Kalus wrote: > The west traded heavily with [Saddam], be it the US, France, > Germany, the UK.
The west, including the US traded and continues to trade heavily with Castro, yet somehow that does not lead you to believe they think Castro a good guy, nor does it lead you to believe they are actively supporting him. > It is astonishing that it was okay for Saddam to be as evil > as be and we (as a society) turned a blind eye to it Yet you show no similar astonishment concerning the evil of Stalin. James A. Donald: > > Evil men, by their nature, find themselves in conflict with > > other evil men for the same reasons as good men do. Thus > > evil men and good men will often find themselves in a > > temporary alliance of convenience against a common enemy, > > an alliance that both sides know will end in war or near > > war fairly soon. Michael Kalus > I suggest you read Chomsky's new book, and if only as a > reference to the sources he lists. Every citation Chomsky gives is fraudulent. I recently posted a paragraph by paragraph examination of one of his more notorious articles. Every single citation he gave was false in some central and crucial way. See my very long posting: http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=739htvsqv3bteggtq8p2ht5ae1fl8g3rj [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tinyurl.com/yzao > If you ally with the enemy than you are giving up what makes > you good. It merely means you are dealing with one enemy at a time, rather than all of them at once. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG BD9mhUcJ2fu+5AnOrsX/j+E5S6NXUuQ40Qk4617u 4fiAQszFxSm820AMu8akts9Cg5A/AkwHtkQLXCm8z
