On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, snow wrote:
Some would say that 1) Saddam (as a problem) was _created_ by the US, and it would not be in the interest of certain people to have him die. Along the same lines, Castro, while not exactly friendly (and who can blame him) to the US, is also not a threat, and never really has been. Killing him would serve no purpose.
Shortly after the Gulf War elements in the Iraqi military tried to overthrow Hussein; they apparently tried to co-ordinate with the U.S., who tried to co-ordinate with Saudi Arabia, who warned Saddam that there was going to be a coup attempt; gotta stop that Ol' power vaccuum... The fact that the people who performed the Bay of Pigs were enticed into it by promised but withdrawn U.S. military support is a matter of public record; would Castro still be in power had the United States not (intentionally? I don't know) destroyed the core resistance against him in that fashion? Phil Fraering The above is the opinion of neither my internet pgf@acadian.net service provider nor my employer. 318/261-9649