-- James A. Donald:
The US government should expose and condemn these objectionable practices, subvert moderately objectionable regimes, and annihilate more objectionable regimes. The pentagon should deprive moderately objectionable regimes of economic resources, by stealing their oil, destroying their water systems, and cutting off their trade and population movements with the outside world.
Tyler Durden
As was stated elesewhere, there is sfirst of all the problem of -who- determines the meaning of objectionable.
As I said, an Islamic regime is objectionable if it tolerates terror against non islamic minorities, thus creating, perhaps unintentionally, an environment that facilitates terror against external infidels - that is to say, terror against me and people like me.
In this context a very strong case can be made that the US caused the Khmer Rouge to come to power, precisely by performing in a way similar to what you espouse.
That "case" is a nutty rationalization put forward by the former fans of the Khmer Rouge to rationalize their bad conduct. The Khmer Rouge came to power in the same way communists did in Laos: because the North Vietnamese created them armed them, and then engaged in major military intervention to bring them to power. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG Hc9DKz2cMbczPC73mgjALFsceb/aslSBwH9Id4Ng 4ySC7lfzG04xzWAMEFTVW74ePloZsF8IukGPBMSwD