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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (714353)11/21/2005 12:04:48 PM
From: Geoff Altman  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
During the Cold War the mind set of the US was to focus on the USSR. That now needs to change in order to combat the rise of Islamic fundamentalism. Towards the achievement of that goal, the US should not seek bases in Arab lands as they did during the Cold War. Instead they should pull out and train the Arab armies through joint US-Saudi, US-Egypt military exercises. Encourage Pakistan to do the same with their Arab neighbors.

In the cold war we had the somewhat dubious policy of supporting any petty dictator/king/tyrant or whatever as long as they were anti-communist. With the logic of the argument you're using I can see that we'd end up doing more of the same. That's not acceptable..... I'd put it to you that since the cold war ended the US has had to combat these very regimes
that we previously had propped up in our fight against communism.
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