opinions-political-transparency

interesting that high officials in the current US government sponsored and trained terrorists, huh?

(my point is not that they are thugs but that they are hypocritical; it is important to realize that terrorists are often just brave people willing to sacrifice their lives to acheive idealistic political goals. the reason they end up screwing stuff up is because they are so committed to their ideals that they are willing to hurt civilians to achieve them. the solution is to be wary of using violence to achieve even the noblest ideals. this applies to governments, too; we should be aware that we killed more civilians in Afghanistan than the WTC folks killed over here. )

(while I think sponsoring the bad guys in Latin America was bad, it isn't really so different from sponsoring Musharref in Pakistan today since he revolked the constitution a few months ago -- while I think it's bad policy and morally wrong, a lot of people disagree.

what I really have against these guys in the Bush administration is that they did it covertly, i.e. they misled the American people)