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Originally Posted by TheMercenary
The strike on the Embassy is a poor example, it remains a controversial subject. The supplying of an outdated map hardly is evidence of a conspiracy. Anyway the US did not bomb it, NATO did.
Further examples of US wrong doing in the world before many reforms were put in place after Viet Nam are other bad examples of why we should or should not take military action anywhere in the world to protect our interests, Iraq not withstanding that test.
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Post-Vietnam we armed and trained insurgents in Afghanistan and Nicaragua. We didn't do this because they were corrupt and sometimes brutal regimes, they were, but because they were corrupt and sometimes brutal regimes that we considered socialist or communist.
Protecting their interests in Afghanistan is one of the reasons the Soviets went broke in the 1980's. The US could probably have fought and secured Afghanistan in a one-front war. As it is, the resources we are putting into Iraq are much more than we are dedicating to Afghanistan.
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