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>Maybe that's why America has a habit of supporting and financing the 
>most brutal dictatures in the world, including the Taliban regime 
>until recently ?

Its often mentioned that the US created Bin Laden in the Afgan-Russian 
war. I heard the author of a book called Soldiers of God who spent years 
in Afganistan say that the US wanted to support moderate Afgans, but the 
Pakistanis insisted that the US support the most radical Afgan group. The 
reason was, so Pakistan could control this group when the later took 
over. However, even with Pakistani support they still couldn't win after 
the soviets left. The result was chaos from which the Taliban arose from 
the Pakistani religious schools. 


Vincent Kenis wrote 
>According to some, the "American agenda" is very obvious : ....
>- install military bases so that they can balance Russia and China, 
>which in the long run are their main obstacles for world domination
>...break all anti-imperialist resistance in the world.

If the US is so imperialistic, why didn't we keep Panama, South Korea, 
West Germany, Japan, Okinawa, Grenada, and parts of Kosovo? Surely we 
must have gotten some additional real estate to add to our 'empire' with 
all these wars, right?