Strange how alliances shift.Nothing strange about it.
For half a century the world revolved around Soviet and communist aggression and the American stand against it. When the USSR collapsed, so, too, collapsed those alignments. Cuba was never more an island than today (outside of certain U.S. congressional districts...), and, OMG, China has written property rights into its constitution.
The disaster of the Clintoon 1990s is that the USA ceded its authority to the United Nations, which was entirely incapable of filling the power void that resulted from the collapse of the USSR. The islamicists stepped in.
No, there is nothing strange in that the nations freed of Soviet rule have sided with America in this hour. We're re-shaping the world. Iraq is but a battlefield in a tremendous, history-making war. It is not the War on Terror, it is a war on humanity that started in 1917 (or at whatever date you prefer to place the origins of the European calamity... 1789 Paris, perhaps?). Unless we let them, Al Queda can do nothing compared to what the communists wrecked upon the world in their seventy-five year reign of murder.
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