On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 22:57 +0000, Benjamin A'Lee wrote: > On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 02:46:33PM -0800 or thereabouts, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Russia - IIRC, Implicated in the same scam and/or sold arms to Saddam > > for which he owed millions/billions on. They had a finacial interest > > in > > Iraq either way. > > If I remember correctly, the USA also supplied Iraq with weapons, when > it was fighting Iran.
Sure. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
> And to the Taliban when it was fighting the
> USSR.
No. The mujāhidīn, who were very grateful..
> How does that make the USA better than the rest of the world, exactly?
"Whatever may be the moral ambiguities of the so-called demoratic
nations and however serious may be their failure to conform per-
fectly to their democratic ideals, it is sheer moral perversity
to equate the inconsistencies of a democratic civilization with
the brutalities which modern tyrannical states practice."
Reinhold Nieburhr, ca. 1940
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