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To: steve harris who wrote (203004)	9/16/2006 8:19:49 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

So you're disappointed we helped defeat the communists in Afghanistan? Yes, I'm disappointed that the US used the Afghans as pawns that we promptly abandoned after the Soviets left Afghanistan. Which then came under Taliban rule. You prefer Taliban rule over communist rule. Nixon and Kissinger didn't think communism was so bad.... Henry A. Kissinger quietly acknowledged to China in 1972 that Washington could accept a communist takeover of South Vietnam if that evolved after a withdrawal of U.S. troops -- even as the war to drive back the communists dragged on with mounting deaths. President Richard M. Nixon's envoy told Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai: "If we can live with a communist government in China, we ought to be able to accept it in Indochina."... Kissinger told Zhou that the United States respected its Hanoi enemy as a "permanent factor" and probably the "strongest entity" in the region. "And we have had no interest in destroying it or even defeating it," he insisted... washingtonpost.com We were willing to live with the Communist Soviet Union, we were willing to live with a possible communist Indochina. We are doing business today with communist Vietnam and communist China. We tolerate communist Cuba. We don't even much care what communist North Korea does to it's own people. Would a communist Afghanistan have been unacceptable? jttmab