>>Who supported and harboured Bin Laden against the Russian Red Army? And who continued to support the Talibans for a full year after they took power? The USA, I'm afraid. If you feed rats, you have to expect to get bitten from time to time.<<
You point is very well taken - and a caveat for all the European companies who have been very anxious to resume business as usual - including chemical business - with Iraq. I fear this is going to prove to have been a very big mistake.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
