Originally Posted by
Danny42C
Your enemy's enemy is your friend !
Danny, with all due deference and respect, I think in 2014 things aren't quite so simple anymore.
Lets take the last 40 years. Vietnam and South East Asia I don't even consider.
We have the US arming, training and assisting the mujahideen in Afghanistan against the USSR...including one Osama bin Laden.
The less extremist ones later just joined the Taliban.
We have the US arming and assisting Saddam's Iraq against the Ayatollah's Iran....an Iran armed with F-4 Phantoms and F-14 Tomcats that the US armed the Shah's Iran with in the first place.
Libya, Syria, Israel, the list goes on.
The enemy of my enemy is NOT necessarily my friend anymore. In fact, he may become a far worse enemy than my enemy.
That doesn't answer anything, I know. It's just a fact.