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To: MeDroogies who wrote (335)	7/1/1998 12:46:00 PM
From: Mike P.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13060

And you are exactly correct. The quote is actually the enemy of your enemy is your friend......sometimes? The best example I could think of was us buddying up with Iran while they were keeping Iraq busy. Again, brilliant foreign relations strategy but extremely naive if we believed Iran was actually a friend, which of course we didnt. It was just practical. Your examples are excellent and duly noted. Thanks. poet.

To: MeDroogies who wrote (335)	7/2/1998 3:10:00 AM
From: Andy Thomas	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13060

>>Similarly the US and the Soviets in WWII. We didn't need them to win the war...and look what was wrought at Yalta. << Whoa... where did that come from? The Russians were the main factor in Germany's defeat. It might be better to ask the question, , "Could the Stalinists and Russian Patriots have defeated the Nazis without without Western aid?" instead of stating as fact that we didn't need them to win the war. I don't see how England and the US would have ever set foot on the continent again, had it not been for the existence of that vast, wermacht-consuming cauldron the Germans knew as the East Front. Have you read "Hitler Moves East" or "Scorched Earth" by Carrel (sp?)? Fascinating... FWIW Andy