Seld-defeating US foreign policy

[James A. Donald]

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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. 

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