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To: roto who wrote (33580)	8/17/2021 10:05:34 AM
From: Sun Tzu	1 Recommendation Recommended By ajtj99 Respond to of 97567

I was near the Afghan-Pakistan border while CIA was busy using UN offices as a front. The high level Afghans allies loathed themselves for being American mercenaries. I told them that they were patriots getting help to free their country. One them snapped back, "we take money from Americans to kill their enemies. This is what mercs do." One of CIA guys asked an Afghan UN interpreter, "so what are the Russians doing in Afghanistan?" to which she replied, "the same things Americans did in Vietnam." Right there was everything that you needed to know about how it would end without long term planning. These were the people who were helping the US. How do think those who were opposing the US felt? So long as there is no principled way to address the foreign policy and provide consistency over a 20+ years timeframe, the US will be marred in forever wars.

To: roto who wrote (33580)	8/17/2021 10:15:52 AM
From: Sun Tzu	1 Recommendation Recommended By ajtj99 Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97567

IF the US had conducted its foreign policy according to it's founding moral principles, then we would not have supported the Saudis and ISS in Afghanistan. Nor would we have have gotten in bed with Saddam. Nor made many other decisions that eventually came to bite us in the rear. Ethics are not about being "nice". They are the distillation of thousands of years of wisdom on how to conduct yourself for long term happiness. This is why ethical principles are universal. Think about it. The Chinese with very different history, religion, culture, etc came to very similar conclusion about right and wrong as Americans, Russians, and Arabs did. This is as close to universal truth as we are going to get.