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[QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] Why what the US did in Iraq 20 years ago doesn't matter anymore: The era of unconditional US support of dictatorships is over. Why does this seem to upset so many people on the left? They should be pleased that a longstanding and BAD cold war policy has finally been reversed. "Containment" has finally been seen for the poor strategy that it is - no matter who you're containing, it means you have to foster relations with the dictators around him. In the USSR's case, this meant places in which the USSR was trying to expand to, in Africa, SouthEast Asia, Central and South America. In Iraq's case, it meant Saudi Arabia and the other Mideast Dictatorships. Europe is different, because it's nations are (more or less) Democracies. The worst we had to ally with to contain the USSR in Europe was France. (Just kidding. Turkey.) We usually didn't have to worry about a UK Prime Minister suddenly deciding to nerve-gas the Northern Irish. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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