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Originally Posted by Schone23666
It's called "Realpolitik" Raellus, and you are right, to an extent at least. Though at the risk of sounding defensive, it's unfortunately a game that just about EVERY country that has some political interest outside it's borders plays, and I honestly don't see anyone in the current crop of the United Nations winning this particular moral argument.
That, and some of the alternatives to the dictatorships the U.S. backed, now and then, werent' necessarily the friendliest sort either...
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Yeah, we Brits do the same thing.
We supply half the middle east with things that go boom (courtesy of BAE), the governemnt was in a sticky wicket when the Bahrainians where using kit we sold them to put down their protestors.
Politics is shitty, we help put down Gaddafi but ignore Syria.
10-23-2011, 02:35 AM
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