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  ...and billions of dollars in weapon sales even though Israel still occupies what was once Palestine." He knew that he needed to summarize these issues with some scanty understanding to impress the senator. "America imposes sanctions against Iraq out of fear of its military buildup but these sanctions cause thousands of people to die from malnutrition. America financially backed Iraq against Iran in that war and the Taliban against the Soviet Union and now those regimes were the wrong choices. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.   was the wrong philosophy. Those were bad foreign affairs blunders. They continually interfere with the policies of Moslem countries so that the oil that drives their economy doesn't cease. It is economic considerations that cause them to back the governments of Algeria and Egypt that they can influence even though those governments are not democracies. They've made Iraq and Iran as strong as America." The senator knew that this was a good understanding for a 14-year-old boy. "How do you...   Proverb, Arabian

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