Posted on 09/15/2001 5:36:38 PM PDT by Demidog
What an idiotic statement. There was never any threat to the physical safety of the Soviet Union from Afghanistan, with possible exception of adjacent Central Asian Republics.
Assistance to the anti-Soviet forces in Afghanistan played an arguably major role in the demise of the evil empire of the Soviet Union. Yes, some of that assistance seems to have backfired, with our former friends turning on us.
This should not be surprising. Same thing happened in WW2. Without our assistance, it is extremely unlikely the Russians could have defeated Hitler. Our assisting them in crushing a common enemy led directly to their confronting us in the next conflict, the Cold War.
Neither of these episodes should lead to great second thoughts. Defeating Hitler was important enough to justify an alliance even with Stalin. Defeating the Soviet Union was important enough to justify a temporary alliance with fundementalist Moslems. Right now we face the possibility of a single atomic attack. However, for 40 years we faced the daily possibility of total atomic annihlation by thousands of bombs. The Russian repulse in Afghanistan significantly contributed to the end of that state of affairs.
However, the fact that Clinton made sure to say to the world "support Bush whatever he does" is a bit out of character. Why I wonder?
The concept you have documented is called blowback, and hard-nosed realists retired from the intelligence community have been warning about it for a decade. Now it's finally come home as they predicted.
For some unexplored corners of our China policy, read Who Sold Us Out to China: A Study of the Sino-American Relationship. Some of the story is in there.
I agree. It was made by our government. I am simply telling you what they claimed the objective was.
I beg to differ.
This piece of despicable human waste, is a lot of things, but he is no dummy.
He knows the mood of the American people and he's going to play right into it.
He never led the Country, he stuck his finger in the wind and told people what they wanted to hear.
Bill Clinton knows what the people want to hear right now, hence his "support" for Bush's actions.
I love the irony that Bill's legacy will be
"I did not have sex with that women..." B. Clinton
vs
"And soon, the people who knocked these buildings down, will hear from ALL of US!" President G.W. Bush
somehow I think the Russians are human...
They may get mad. I'm not concerned with that.
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