-- On 18 Dec 2003 at 14:07, Michael Kalus wrote:
The west traded heavily with [Saddam], be it the US, France, Germany, the UK.
The west, including the US traded and continues to trade heavily with Castro, yet somehow that does not lead you to believe they think Castro a good guy, nor does it lead you to believe they are actively supporting him.
It is astonishing that it was okay for Saddam to be as evil as be and we (as a society) turned a blind eye to it
Yet you show no similar astonishment concerning the evil of Stalin. James A. Donald:
Evil men, by their nature, find themselves in conflict with other evil men for the same reasons as good men do. Thus evil men and good men will often find themselves in a temporary alliance of convenience against a common enemy, an alliance that both sides know will end in war or near war fairly soon.
Michael Kalus
I suggest you read Chomsky's new book, and if only as a reference to the sources he lists.
Every citation Chomsky gives is fraudulent. I recently posted a paragraph by paragraph examination of one of his more notorious articles. Every single citation he gave was false in some central and crucial way. See my very long posting: http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=739htvsqv3bteggtq8p2ht5ae1fl8g3rj u@4ax.com http://tinyurl.com/yzao
If you ally with the enemy than you are giving up what makes you good.
It merely means you are dealing with one enemy at a time, rather than all of them at once. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG BD9mhUcJ2fu+5AnOrsX/j+E5S6NXUuQ40Qk4617u 4fiAQszFxSm820AMu8akts9Cg5A/AkwHtkQLXCm8z