Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Strategies & Market Trends : Zeev's Turnips - No Politics -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: 4rthofjuly007 who wrote (75158)	6/5/2002 11:21:00 PM
From: ajtj99	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 99280

4rth, we had no problem providing the same guy with the satellite logistics to gas Iranians. Nobody said a word at the time, as it was in our national interest to keep those two countries at each other and as a buffer against eachother. There is no black and white in the world of politics, only shades of gray. We aspire to the black or the white, but those in power know that in many instances, we can only achieve the best shade of gray possible. Countries don't have friends or enemies. They only have interests. We are a proponent of Democracy, unless the wrong person gets elected. There are scores of examples of that. Elect an extemist by a democratic process, and we still have a problem. What would you call Stalin? If this were 1946, would you have advocated taking him out militarily? He did slaughter his own people and was developing a nuclear capability, the criteria you cite for taking out a dictator. I might add that Stalin was our good buddy in 1945. What changed? Our interests.