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Dan BrettaI tend to think the less we meddle with middle eastern politics the better off we will be. Someone above wrote that we should blame Charlie Wilson and not Dubya...part of that would be correct in that he got the money through congress to arm the Mujahadeen against the Soviets in Afghanistan...of course it seems everyone we ally with in that area of the world eventually turns into our enemy....The more we meddle the more extreme they become. Iran is the perfect place for democracy to take root, but it has to come from within and can not be forced upon them.
a good article on that subject is here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/13/AR2006031301761.html