[muawiyah]

Actually, the OSS had that belief. It's pretty close to what actually happened ~ and in light of the fact that the US ended up aiding Chang Kai Shek, the RUSSIAN selection as Communist dictator for Big China, it's actually not far off the mark.

I wish people would study the history of these things before assuming we gave a darn about those people.

We told the French to go ahead and move back into their Eastasian colonies, but please get out of the MidEast. You see how that worked. Arabs have a bad habit of stabbing their benefactors in the back.

[marstegreg]

I am just pointing out the “anti-colonialism that he seems to gravitate to. Remember the Winston Churchill statue given back to U.K.? More than anything it shows he still lives by these lessons.