On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:19:31 -0500, Eisboch wrote:


There you go again, dissing old Ronny Wrinkles, who has nothing to do
with this topic and, BTW, is a favorite of Barack Obama.

Eisboch

Well, in a way, Reagan was at the start. In 1982, Reagan removed Iraq
from the list of terrorist sponsoring countries, and started arming both
Iraq and Iran during the Iraq/Iran War. Many consider the debt Iraq
accrued during that war, the reason for the invasion of Kuwait. When you
play geopolitical chess, the end game is sometimes problematic.

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On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:19:31 -0500, Eisboch wrote:


There you go again, dissing old Ronny Wrinkles, who has nothing to do
with this topic and, BTW, is a favorite of Barack Obama.

Eisboch

Well, in a way, Reagan was at the start. In 1982, Reagan removed Iraq
from the list of terrorist sponsoring countries, and started arming both
Iraq and Iran during the Iraq/Iran War. Many consider the debt Iraq
accrued during that war, the reason for the invasion of Kuwait. When you
play geopolitical chess, the end game is sometimes problematic.

Yep. And in the game of international political chess, the strategies
change for the current conditions.
The conditions in 1982 were very different than the conditions in 2002.

Eisboch