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[HoreTore]

She is certainly playing fast and loose with the Syrian arming thing. Yes, some of the supplies will end up in the hands of AQ sympathizers. War zones are rarely well ordered with lots of accountants running about checking blocks so some of the stuff will likely get diverted. That is a far cry from what she is claiming.

What's her position on Dear Reagan arming OBL, btw?

[Seamus Fermanagh]

What's her position on Dear Reagan arming OBL, btw?

I don't know that she's made any statements regarding that, so I cannot answer. The American political right, at the time, saw the whole thing as a way to put a thumb in the Soviet Bear's eye. At the time Good Time Charlie was pushing for funding for that CIA dirty trick effort, we were still fearful of Sov Tank brigades rolling through the Fulda gap thicker than cockroaches on a tenement floor. Making the Ruskis hurt was considered a good effort.

As is all too often true with the USA, we had a much better plan for the short term and far less of a good grasp on long term unintended consequences....including the ISI funding and equipping Saudi wahabist mujahedeen along with Pashtuns.

I suspect Bachman missed that too, just as most of us did.