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Buffalo Roam

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It seems that certain people like samcdkey, spidergoat, spuriousmonkey Nickelodeon, and others have a problem with the fact that at certain time in our countries history the U.S. has supported dictators of unsavory character, well let them please name any country in the world that hasn't supported and traded with dictators of unsavory character, when it has served the best interest of that country, I don't think that you can find a country in the history of the world that hasn't done so, so why is it so bad for the U.S. to serve their best interest, when every other country has done the same thing?
 
"supported and traded with dictators"

Why don't you first specify how broadly you plan to parse and interpret that phrase, and save us all a lot of valuable time.

Until then I'll just invest one phrase of my own, hugely significant in human and national character:

The company you keep.
 
Nice ice, for as long as our interest lasts.

Oops- It's gone. Don't blame me if you can't take the heat.
 
Buffalo Roam: "at certain time in our countries history the U.S. has supported dictators of unsavory character... when it has served the best interest of that country"

Most often it has not. The cumulative and long-term effects of US collaboration with dictators have been overwhelmingly negative, and certainly not in US national interests.
 
Remember that time the US government gave money to the Taliban to defend themselves against the Russians?
 
Buffalo Roam said:
Free_Matt_417, provide site references and dates please?
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The US's opposition to the Taliban is recent and opportunist. During the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980s the CIA, along with Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, funded the Mujahadeen, the forerunners of the Taliban. Former US National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski asked of this proxy war, 'What was more important in the worldview of history? The Taliban or the fall of the Soviet Empire? A few stirred-up Muslims or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War?'

After 11 September 2001 Taliban attempts to negotiate--including an offer to discuss extraditing Bin Laden--were rejected out of hand.

Look it up.
 
Free_Matt_417 , you just proved that the U.S. didn't support the Taliban,

During the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980s the CIA, along with Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, funded the Mujahadeen,
the forerunners of the Taliban.
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You have just shown that the Taliban didn't exist in Afganistan during the war against the Russians, there were Mujahadeen, but no Taliban and not all of the Mujahadeen supported the founding and rise to power of the Taliban after the Russians with drew.
 
Oh goody if they change their name again we need not worry about the Taliban anymore.:rolleyes:
 
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