>stop foolish embargoes and instead try to help the residents become prosperous enough to resist and heavily fund any reasonably competent and non-horrid rebels.
The problem there (in addition too selling weapons to a extremist theocracy) was that in that case (as in far too many others) the US funded deeply horrid rebels against an exemplary government - pretty much the exact reverse of what I'd advocating.
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andrewducker) wrote2003-03-20 11:17 am
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A la, the Iran-Contra scandal?
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