[chuckles]

The reason I know this is bullsheite is how could Charlie Wilson be the cause of training the Mujahadeeneie's if it's Reagan's fault that Osama was trained and equipped to kill us on 9/11? They have to choose, either Wilson is a hero, or Reagan is a dunce. For years now I've been taught that Osama is Reagan's creation, now I'm supposed to believe a drunk congressman from a hot tub singlehandedly beat the Russians?

I'm so confused.

[VOA]

I'm so confused.

Join the club.
Having grown up in the time when The Democratic Party morphed from
the "liberal" (in what was a good sense) party into the
"Blame American First And All Sodomy, All The Time" party, it does
blow one's mind to find someone with "(D)" after their name had a mission
"to kill Russians/Soviets".

If Reagan "created" Osama, Charlie Wilson sure helped out a bit.
And even if that case could be made, both did so inadvertently.

But you do occssionally hear someone call themselves "A Harry Truman"
or "A Scoop Jackson" type of Democrat.
I'm too polite to reply "just cut the crap...you're a Republican!".
As for Charlie Wilson, the only real home he could have in the
Democratic Party today would be in The Kennedy Boozing And Womanizing
compound.


Another thing about Democrats and national defense...
When Gulf War I was getting underway, I REALLY held my breath
praying that our "smart weapons" would actually work in combat,
seeing how a number of them really got rolling during the Carter Admin.
It blows my mind that Carter didn't kill the "smart weapons" program
and that Herbert Brown as Sec. Defense did a respectable job
of sheparding the program.

[flattorney]

As it relates to the Middle East, in which I have substantial and detailed knowledge, my favorite saying is “Foundations do not last very long when you build them on quicksand” i.e. the whole M.E. region has been highly unstable since before the birth of Christ. Further, our political leaders continuing to ignore the Middle East Polarization Doctrine will continue to lead to very grave consequences for our great Country. However, President Ronald Reagan had to stop the Soviets continued build-up in the Middle East, which meant doing something about their massive slaughter in Afghanistan to take control of it, even though the candyass U.S. Congress wanted to sit on their hands and do nothing. But, we left a vacuum when we pulled out of Afghanistan. We left it for the taking, which ended up being by terrorists, which frankly was of no “mission accomplished” (against the commie bastards) surprise. - FlA