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To: Neocon who wrote (46803)	7/24/1999 9:41:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Our support of the mujaheddin in Afghanistan, and of the Contras in Central America, was crucial to convincing the Soviets that we were serious Serious about what? About shipping armaments to those who would later supply them to our enemies, and subsidizing a bunch of trogdolyte dope pushers? The Soviet Union collapsed because its economic foundation was constructed on a premise that didn't and couldn't work. Forcing them into an arms race may have accelerated this collapse, but it did not create it. As a matter of history, we sometimes put pressure on allied regimes, and sometimes did not. Most often we made a show of putting pressure, and not a very good one.