The Second Strine at War on Terrorism

There's so many examples of this but the one that comes to mind is in afghanistan. We launch a military coup and re-empower the shah train and arm and fund his secret police which leads to a deeply repressive government as long as he will allow british petroleum to maintain their oil fields and will maintain alliance with us. It's the same kind of thing that we do over and over and over again that we are willing to inflict huge amounts of harm to population as long as we keep allies in power. The forces you unleash don't simply go away, they exist and they continue to exist.

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