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To: LindyBill who wrote (12411)	10/16/2003 10:38:47 PM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 793957

Same questions we had during the Cold War, aren't they? And this will come up more and more as these third world countries harbor Terrorists we are after. Africa, South America, the Middle East, the Far East, all have them. Many of these questions did come up during the cold war, and we all too often assumed during that war that the enemies of our enemies were our friends. This often did not turn out to be the case. We all know where the assistance we provided to the Afghan Mujahedin got us. Blind American support for corrupt and repressive dictatorships that happened to be nominally anti-communist has also caused us no end of problems in our relations with the developing world. I have to wonder if the Bush team realizes that governments like those of Russia and Indonesia are not cooperating with us in the war on terror because they are on our side. They are on their own side, and their agendas diverge from ours in very significant ways. We would be ill advised to grant the same privileges to countries that are nominally anti-terror that we once granted to those who were anti-communist. The world is not a simple place. It would be very silly to try and divide it into good guys and bad guys on a single criterion.