Reply #36: where'd you get that right-wing spin? [View All]

[RainDog]

or maybe you just aren't up on recent history. we armed the taliban to fight the russians, yes, and the taliban were our chosen enforcers. and we didn't give a shit when they were shooting women in soccer stadiums for adultery, as long as we let them fight a proxy war -- and the taliban let OBL train in their country. so, our allies were allies with obl. the world isn't as black and white as you'd like to present it.

and then, after we created the mess of the taliban, we go in and "beat" them. (actually, have you read about the recent resurgence of the taliban? maybe if you go to war for political bullshit with another country... maybe you don't actually fix the problem you created.

In the 1970s, when Wolfie, et al were screaming about the soviet danger, Emmanuel Todd was writing about the way the USSR was going to implode from its own inconsistencies...and that's exactly what happened. Gorby was trying to make the transition as painless as possible, but the USSR got shock doctrine eco. policy from the ultra right and then all sorts of dangerous weapons tech. was for sale, because people will do that if they're afraid they can't survive.

I can only assume that you are either 1. very young or 2. not aware of actual history, or 3. a...you know...under bridges, all that... Hope it's no. 1.