[grandpa]

* = Initial comment
= Grandpa h.



No, I was countering your arguement.*
Excusing America of...?*

Iraq was an example of America taking the aggressive action.

I never said we never supported Israel, another popular scapegoat*
for the Arab world, or that we didn't supported unpopular*
repressive regimes.*

But we do not see the s o l u t i o n when we support unpopular repressive regimes, do we? So why do we do it when it obviously only creates more problems?

We did, and we did it because the Cold War*
was a bigger problem for us then, and it was*
an ugly thing.*

And the United States, like the Soviet Union, took a stand against every teaching of peace. We are still doing so today.

What would be the problem with undoing the damage by*
removing those regimes, then?*

I fail to see how our experiments with repressive regimes are better than Russia's experiment with communism. Both inevitably led to tensions in the world that otherwise probably may not be.

Grandpa h.