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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (137816)	1/3/2018 11:49:04 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217561

Syrians have been getting a taste of freedom too. I guess the survivors would be happy to stick with Assad and Asma rather than ISIS and other varieties of USA funded freedom fighters. Ukrainians will tire of such freedom too. Crimeans dodged a bullet by voting to stick with Russia. But Team Trump is likely to give them freedom fire and fury anyway whether they like it or not. Congress is foaming at the mouth with RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA MADness. Mqurice

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (137816)	1/6/2018 4:45:26 AM
From: Hawkmoon	1 Recommendation Recommended By Glenn Petersen Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217561

BTW Nice to see u still around :) Thanks!! US has much to account for.. A lot of gov'ts have much to account for.. For example, China and Russia should be held to account for permitting, if not actually assisting directly with, Kim 3.0's acquisition of nuclear weapons. But I stand by my assertion that the US hasn't added any territory since the Spanish American War. And we've granted independence to much of the territory we took control of after that war. China is still acquiring territory (S. China Sea).. And let we forget, US policies after WWII were instrumental to "encouraging" many Western powers to dismantle their empires and overseas colonies. Bush freed Iraq LOL Obama freed Libya LOL Bad policies.. even worse execution.. But also a product of historical, and arbitrary, creation of artificial borders after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Iraq didn't need to turn out nearly as bad as it did, IMO. Paul Bremmer's ineptitude (or deliberate "negligence") is responsible for much of that. Libya? Qaddaffi has his share of the blame for that situation.. But there is no way that I'm asserting that the US is blameless.. It's just that US policy doesn't happen in a vacuum. Hawk