The USA has always preferred to play the man rather than the movement. As usual it brings pain to all concerned rather than results. Ahmad Chalabi likes money and never had a political base in Iraq so why back him? The intelligence he provided was plain wrong.
Syngman Rhee was a autocratic leader in his time and South Korea gradually came around. I would also have thought that the lessons learnt after what happened to Chinese and North Korean Pows would have been remembered.
Expat in Israel.
Friday, May 21, 2004
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