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

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (731872)	3/14/2006 9:42:50 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Oh, I see.... Well, I would say that wars are seldom fought SOLELY for 'humanitarian' reasons --- there are usually lot's 'o old fashioned, time tested reasons like power politics, greed, etc., wrapped up in the mix... but I'm with you insofar that I would not say that the Western proxy war against the Soviets in Afghanistan had 'nothing humanitarian' about it. Far from it, humanitarian reasons were a big part of it (if not 'the biggest part'... :) ...After all, we really wanted to give the Soviets a bloody nose. (It was also interesting to see how much the Soviet/Afghan War contributed to the fall of the Soviet Empire....)