Re: Kennedy In The Cuban Missile Crisis

"John Briggs" <john.briggs4@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

:Fred J. McCall wrote:
:> "John Briggs" <john.briggs4@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
:>
:>> Raymond O'Hara wrote:
:>>> "John Briggs" <john.briggs4@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
:>>> news:0gTck.120030$ft1.91218@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>>
:>>>>> Power vaccuums are a really bad thing. Look at the mess that came
:>>>>> out of the collapse of the evil empire. It had to happen, don't
:>>>>> get me wrong there but several nasty wars, including the current
:>>>>> messes in Iraq and Afghanistan, resulted.
:>>>>
:>>>> Er, no - that really isn't what happened.
:>>>
:>>> er... yes. it is what happened.
:>>
:>> Well, the war in Afghanistan is a direct result of America's action
:>> in arming the Taleban during the Soviet occupation of that country
:>> during the Cold War.  The Soviet Union withdrew from Afghanistan
:>> *before* the Soviet Union itself collapsed. [A warning from history,
:>> perhaps?]
:>>
:>> Iraq has nothing to do with the Soviet Union - Saddam Hussein was
:>> America's ally, and a proxy in its war with America's former vassal
:>> Iran.
:>
:> Where do you buy your drugs?
:
:Which particular bit are you querying?
:

Yes.

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