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Kirkland Laing
I'm sure you can back up your claims that Clinton gave AQ weapons.
And the US has been involved in over 80 foreign interventions just since WW2. Nearly two a year. Of the world's 190 countries the US has military bases in 130 of them, so don't go pretending that you really spend your time peacefully minding your own business.
Yes the US has been involved in many countries it is our right as the one true World Super Power to try and keep peace and keep other people in check, the Brits did it(and still do), the French and Spanish did it, the Romans did it, the Greeks did it, etc etc etc etc....if we didn't do anything #1 Our economy would suffer because people wouldn't want to trade with us without getting something in return more than likely assistance with government to keep their positions of power #2 People would hate us, maybe even more than when we DO intervene. The problem is picking the correct battles to fight....the one not fought today could be the World War III of the future.
As for Clinton aiding Al Queda....which side was the US on in Bosnia the Serbs or the Ethnic Albanians? I distinctly remember the US bombing the absolute crap out of the Serbs and amongst other things the Chinese Embassy there (oooops ;D). It was wrong not only to side with the Serbs because they weren't allied with terrorists like Al Queda who pose a legitimate threat to America but also because the Serbs' main allie is/was RUSSIA and that was not a wise thing to do so soon after the end of the cold war.
According to The Sunday Times, "American intelligence agents have admitted they helped to train the Kosovo Liberation Army before NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia"
United States President Bill Clinton's special envoy to the Balkans, Robert Gelbard, described once the KLA as, "without any questions, a terrorist group". Nevertheless, by February 1998, the KLA had been removed from the United States State Department's terrorism list
Richard Holbrooke states:"There were over 1,000 people in the country who belonged to what we then called Mujahideen freedom fighters. We now know that that was al-Qaida. I'd never heard the word before, but we knew who they were. And if you look at the 9/11 hijackers, several of those hijackers were trained or fought in Bosnia. We cleaned them out, and they had to move much further east into Afghanistan. So if it hadn't been for Dayton, we would have been fighting the terrorists deep in the ravines and caves of Central Bosnia in the heart of Europe"
Holbrooke is speaking of Article III in the Dayton Agreement which simply states all foreign forces must withdrawl from the Bosnia area and all this took place at the tail end of the Bosnian War 1992-1995....Kosovo happened later (1996-1998) so I guess I was wrong about one thing.
Anywho, the US (under the guidance of Bill Clinton) helped the KLA and other muslim organizations during the Bosnian and Kosovo Wars and Al-Qaeda was an allie to the KLA and they fought in the Bosnian War and all during Bill Clinton's reign supreme as President of the United States. Clinton knew they were terrorists, took their terrorist organization off "the list" and helped them in their war despite knowing who was there, what they were about, and who else was helping them.
You've no doubt heard the Spiderman mantra before "With great strength comes great responsibility".....well as a World Super Power that still rings true and no matter what America does they will always always
ALWAYS be considered wrong, oppressive, or "asleep at the wheel" by the groups of people we do not help or oppose. Also you have heard the saying "you can't please everyone all the time"....you should know that by know my limey friend yall lived it before us ;D
