Very few people deny the fact that the USA supported a couple not so nice persons and organisations in the past. The point of view was "the enemy of my enemy is my friend", it was not important that those allies also violated human rights. As long as those allies did what the USA wanted them to do such violations were mostly ignored.
Most people see that as an error, and the recent events shows that they are somewhat right. The Taliban, which were supported by the US. turned against them, Iraq, once an ally, was the target of Gulfwar3.
So you could think that the USA learnt from those obvious errors, that they take the "chance to establish a new order" in middle east. A goal set by themself. But they seem to make the same errors again.
In Afghanistan they cooperated with the North-Alliance, a bunch of warloards mostly radical islamic, and now in Iraq they start to cooperate with the <a href="http://www.terrorismanswers.com/groups/mujahedeen.html">Mujahedeen-e-Khalq</a>. The MEK fights against the Iran (the enemy of my enemy is my friend), and was already supported by Saddam and was considered a "<a href="http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/fs/2003/17065.htm">terroristic group</A>" before the war. They also helped Saddam to fight against the Kurd in northern Iraq in 1991.
The MEK is not a radical islamic group, the fight for a democratic Iran. To reach their goals theys bombed the iranian embassies in Bonn (Germany) and New York in 1992. The MEK also fights for sexual equality, but is based of a stalinistic-authority. Experts say that MEK has increasingly come to resemble a cult that’s devoted to Masud Rajavi’s secular interpretation of the Koran and is prone to sudden, dramatic ideological shifts.
The number of members is a bit unsure, the MEK say 30000, other sources say 10000 some even less.
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http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/speci...08/14708_1.jpg)
What do you think, is it wise to trust such groups again? Id the USA repeating some old errors here? Does that make this whole "war against terror" a bit pointless?