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To: Cincinatus' Wife
I once was asked why Reagan was allowing more technology sold to the Soviet Union. I said, "we probably tainted the software"!

I knew I was right.

Just like how John Ashcroft now taints the evidence we get on certain terrorist...to watch them, follow them, listen in on them...to they day they die if necessary.

Too bad liberals like Kerry have tried to suppress our ability to do these nasty things for decades.
19 posted on 02/27/2004 1:43:31 AM PST by Fledermaus (This Tagline For Rent!)
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To: Fledermaus
The biggest thing Reagan did for destroying the Soviet Union was the US support for Islamic fundamentalist groups in Afghanistan.

It was these groups, with US aid coming through Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, that cost the Soviets their empire.

Unfortunately, when it was over the groups decided there was no sense going out of business. They have since spread to almost every corner of the globe, with amazing results.

The heroin sales they used for funding back then are still going strong today. Well, except for a brief period when the Taliban managed to clamp down on the trade.

In fact, since the US war in Afghanistan the heroin is back in full swing, with most of it being funneled through Kosovo, the playground of the KLA.

For the unfamiliar, the KLA was the group that played a major role in the break up of Yugoslavia. The 78 day NATO bombing campaign against the Serbs helped them immeasurably, although probably coincidentally.

In any case, now they are able to carry on business as usual, with nary a peep from the administration. I guess ends are everything and means are, well, just, means.
20 posted on 02/27/2004 2:18:29 AM PST by fuzlim
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To: Fledermaus
Too bad liberals like Kerry have tried to suppress our ability to do these nasty things for decades.

They don't want the U.S. to be a superpower. It drains resources for necessary constituent buying and it interferes with international deal making diplomacy. They need a weak U.S. so they can try communism again - this time on a world-wide scale where the elites can rule the masses.

"Hillary Clinton and the Radical Left" Hillary Clinton and the Third Way***......For these self-appointed social redeemers, the goal-"social justice"-is not about rectifying particular injustices, which would be practical and modest, and therefore conservative. Their crusade is about rectifying injustice in the very order of things. "Social Justice" for them is about a world reborn, a world in which prejudice and violence are absent, in which everyone is equal and equally advantaged and without fundamentally conflicting desires. It is a world that could only come into being through a re-structuring of human nature and of society itself.

Even though they are too prudent and self-protective to name this future anymore, the post-Communist left still passionately believes it possible. But it is a world that has never existed and never will. Moreover, as the gulags and graveyards of the last century attest, to attempt the impossible is to invite the catastrophic in the world we know.

But the fall of Communism taught the progressives who were its supporters very little. Above all, it failed to teach them the connection between their utopian ideals and the destructive consequences that flowed from them. The fall of Communism has had a cautionary impact only on the overt agendas of the political left. The arrogance that drives them has hardly diminished. The left is like a millenarian sect that erroneously predicted the end of the world, and now must regroup to revitalize its faith.

No matter how opportunistically the left's agendas have been modified, however, no matter how circumspectly its goals have been set, no matter how generous its concessions to political reality, the faithful have not given up their self-justifying belief that they can bring about a social redemption. In other words, a world in which human consciousness is changed, human relations refashioned, social institutions transformed, and in which "social justice" prevails.

Because the transformation progressives seek is ultimately total, the power they seek must be total as well. In the end, the redemption they envision cannot be achieved as a political compromise, even though compromises may be struck along the way. Their brave new world can ultimately be secured only by the complete surrender of the resisting force. In short, the transformation of the world requires the permanent entrenchment of the saints in power. Therefore, everything is justified that serves to achieve the continuance of Them......***

22 posted on 02/27/2004 2:53:05 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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