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Sidewinder, thanks for posting part of your essay. I think what's important to note is that the world was a very different place in the '80s, and we had very different strategic goals then. Enemy number one was the USSR and we had tons of indirect conflicts with them. These conflicts affected the local people involved, but we had a Big Bad Evil to keep at bay.
Sometimes foreign policy seems contradictory, especially with that 20/20 hindsight. Often our goals today are different than they were twenty years ago, and people often forget to consider that when looking back and saying, 'well, that was stupid.'
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