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Heightened levels of terrorism , panic and fear consume our t.v. news and press reports . They blame us , we blame them - they have no justification we say . They don't of course but could we have changed the trail of events ...
policy 1 .
We supported undemocratic governments , Iran , Iraq , Kuwait , Saudi Arabia to name just a few recent examples helping their leaders instil western values and govern without a mandate , so long as we can buy their oil and they won't go over to the evil commie reds .
But this creates despots or rebellion eventually .
policy 2 .
The CIA armed and trained terrorists to challenge communist leaning regimes but communism was on it's last legs anyway . Now that the freedom fighters' job is done we no longer need them and they have no part to play in governing , "sorry guys we never really intended for you to have a say" , we have our man for that role .
So Afghan rebels were trained for Assam (Osama's mentor) . Somewhere along the way they became terrorists , although they weren't doing anything different . And the problem is that terrorists talk , techniques are shared . The Afghan freedom fighters morph into Al Qaeda . We made enemies of Libya and Syria because they didn't want to play the game our way - who then help the I.R.A. in Northern Ireland and P.L.O. in Palestine, the I.R.A. help F.A.R.C. in Colombia and E.T.A. in Spain . I make no apologies for any of these groups , they murder for their own ideological reasons but once they were nothing , then they were embers . We threw petrol on them and fanned the flames . The camp fire has become a forest fire and we no longer control it .
History teaches us lessons we're told but have we learned anything ?
Iraq is an example of both these misguided policies eventually meeting on the time line with catastrophic results . I 'll end with 2 links with an Iraqi flavour .
Iraqi girl
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