Fighting Terrorism the Right Way.
When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, instead of fighting
them directly, we aided and armed the Afghan freedom fighters
(i.e, the Taliban) to fight them for us. When Iraq was fighting
our enemy Iran, we aided Saddam so that he could do our dirty
work for us. Surely this was better than fighting the Russians
in Afghanistan or invading Iran ourselves. So after the Qaeda
terrorists attacked us, why didn't we just bribe and arm Iraq
to go after bin Laden and Qaeda? Our history shows that we have
supported tyrants before and it seems to me that Saddam had no
love for those religious zealots and would have done anything
to save himself. I guess it's too bad Saddam's invasion of
Kuwait put us in such an untenable position.