Monday, January 31, 2011

How many times will this happen before the US realizes it's a bad idea to throw their support behind repressive rulers/groups solely based upon the rulers/groups willingness to working with the US?

The Afghanistan mujahadeen.
The Shah of Iran.
Saddam Hussein (used against Iran after the Shah was overthrown).
etc etc

They wonder why the Middle East is in such a tumultuous state, and so anti-American. It's not hard to figure out. When you have countries where the people are being kept under repressive governments for decades at a time, eventually those people will rise up and overthrow their government. Then they're going to blame the people who put them in that situation.

The US has shown it is willing to support these repressive governments if they play ball with them, and in several cases the US was directly responsible for the tyrant's rise to power. It's not difficult to understand why, after the people overthrow the repressive rulers, that they will be anti-American.

If you use a rabid dog as a guard dog, eventually it will come back to bite you.

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