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Getting in bed with monsters that we aren't at war with to go after monsters we are at war with just seems to set up the next war. After all, Osama was forged as a weapon to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan, and Saddam's military was the product of anti-Iranian policies. While these relationships are built on a supposedly pragmatic basis, the problem is the fact that there is no end game strategy, but instead just a repeating cycle that sucks us into constant conflicts. Some may want this, I suppose, but if you really want to follow a path of stabilizing an area, you can't succeed by propping up bad regimes along the way. The record of failure for this strategy is long, and it is dissapointing to see our current leadership repeating the same errors.
Josh
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