[genefromjersey]

Interesting : I posted a review of this book about 2 weeks ago and got FLAMED because I dared to report that both Republican and Democrat administrations had screwed up - and screw up they did !! We sent Billions of dollars to these people - trusting Pakistan to administer the funds. The Saudis, who had Wahabi Muslim ( Islamic fundamentalists who are virtual twins to the Taliban ) cells operating in Pakistan and Afghanistan , matched the billions we supplied.

[chance33_98]

Shame you got flamed - That is why I posted this from the USMC link (which is where I found it while looking for something else). Not to mention the rundown given by, LtCol Noel Williams, PP&O, Strategic Initiatives Group.

For me it is not about blaming America, it is an examination of our policies and particulary those of the Clinton times.

To say the US has made mistakes is not wrong, to say we are to blame for the things that occured (like 9/11) is just plain stupid. I am all for understanding that region of the world and how we can better model policy which suits our needs - and the best way to do that is look at what has not worked. We need stability there, whitewashing the past will not help us in the future.

A main aim in posting this for me was all those lurkers who make clinton out to be a saint and whine about Bush and oil. They blame 9/11 on bush, terrorism on bush, etc. By their own arguments they should be able to see here that 8 years of Clinton ravaged our foreign policy, Give Bush a chance to undo the damage.