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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gus who wrote (602973)	8/12/2004 2:11:18 PM
From: Doren	Respond to of 769667

the first 10 years of the war Are you talking about the French who were defeated there? OR the Chinese?

To: Gus who wrote (602973)	8/12/2004 2:32:49 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 769667

By then, however, the seeds of Islamic extremism had already taken firm root, thanks to the incompetence and weakness of Jimmy Carter. More complicated than that. The US under Reagan supplied arms to what was to become the Taliban. And they knew they were arming Islamic extremists. They applied "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" instead of "the enemy of my enemy may still be an SOB and my enemy". The Ayatollah Khomeini and Saddam Hussein, for example, came to official power during the Carter administration and there was nothing a hapless Jimmy Carter could do about it except to beg Saddam Hussein, through the Saudi King, if he could please hurt Iran's feelings for taking our hostages. Again, more complicated. The US did more than that: it supplied weapons to Saddam to fight Iran. "The enemy of my enemy" again. started by a Democratic President and a Democratic Congress in 1965. Again, more complicated. The first US involvement began in 1954 under Eisenhower. It is well known we had "military advisors" in there under Kennedy. Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it.