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So many of the problems that the U.S. has been involved in is because of our cold war with the Soviet Union. Korea? Communists supported by USSR. Vietnam? Communists supported by USSR. Afghanistan? We trained bin Laden and the Taliban to combat Soviets. Iran? We supported the Shah to push off Soviet influence. Israel? The only democracy in the region where oil is. Why did we fight Iraqis who had Soviet weapons? BTW, what the hell were the Cubans doing in Africa? oh yeah, pushing communism into Africa. Now the USSR is gone and broken up, but we are left holding the basket and looking like the bad guys because we keep trying to put out the fires. Some of the problems are ours, because we made bad decisions. Supporting dictators like Hussein and Noriega did not work out, even though we thought they were less of an evil than communism. But hey, we have tried to make a difference. No we cannot forget the past, but it is nice to look to the future and try to help people.
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