John S. wrote:

"But when Arnie points out that US support for dictatorships such as
Uzbekistan can actually harm our interests in the long run (look what
supporting the Shah got us) you
say that supporting a dictatorship is vital to our interests, and
better
us than China."

We have an unfortunate habit of supporting some really bad people
because they support some short term goal. We really like having that
airbase in Uzbekistan so we can overlook a few domestic incidents.
Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Agusto Pinnochet, the Shah of Iran,
Manual Noriega and a long list of african despots also come to mind.
Unfortunately these bad guys turn out to have some embarrasing habits
that inevtably are exposed in the press. We deny any connection and
wonder why the bad guys in many instances turn on us.


Yeah, and it ALWAYS blows up in our faces. We prop up every corrupt
sheik in the Middle East; the House of Saud, Mubarak, King Abdullah,
Musharraf, not to mention our puppet govts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Then
we wonder why they want to kill us all. And that's not mentioning the
Shah, who was overthrown, and Saddam, who we overthrew because he ****ed
George Bush Sr. off. And then there's Osama, who is downing our
helicopters with Stinger missiles, not to mention the various other ways
in which he uses our tactics against us. Radio Havana has claimed that
the drones that we were flying over Iran earlier this year were meant to
get them to turn on their radar so we could pick up its vital stats. The
Iranians didn't bite because, as one Iranian AF officer said, "they must
have forgotten that they trained half our guys". What a wonderful mess.


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