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Entry: There Is a Season Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/there_is_a_season#4825 Post contents: Indeed, pride goes before the fall, and we were too proud, and too narrowly focused on Communism to see what we were doing while trying to combat it. It is fair to blame Carter for empowering bin Laden, but Carter was not the first, nor the last to give weapons to the wrong people because they were anti-communist. There is a story to be told of the cooperation of the CIA with drug lords because they were allied against Marxist guerrillas. And the support that was given to military dictatorships in Latin America, to the point of that bitch Kirkpatrick acting as apologist for Videla and co. has yet to be paid for. Pray that that price is not that high as 9/11. Yes, Sid, Wilson was our worst President. It riles me that some commentators will comapre him to Bismarck, to praise Wilson for his idealism and to condemn Bismarck's narrow views. But Bismarck did get peace in Europe for seventy years, and Wilson set the stage for World War II, and this one had to be fought, because it involved cleaning up the mess we had created (a sense of responsibility is a bitch). Sent at: 2008 08 30