Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Choose your friends …

Its funny how politics teaches you to choose your friend’s and foe’s with wisdom…

In 1982, during the Iraq-Iran war, America candidly helped Saddam Hussain with financing, intelligence and military. The same man which was later target of the witch hunt conducted by the U.S., after being casted as the sole enemy of freedom, democracy and humanity in general.

The U.S. is also known to have helped Fidel Castro and his revolutionaries with arms against the regime of President Fulgencio Batista. The man who later dodged American-sponsered-assassination attacks, exported refugees to U.S. and got the world almost at the brink of nuclear war in 1962.

Similar is the case of Dawood Ibrahim, who seeked shelter in Pakistan, and managed to live a luxurious, fearless life for years. The passport of his happiness in Pakistan was the fact that he had greatly hurt India. But now as U.S. seek his arrest, he is in a very uncomfortable position as Pakistan is very keen to wash their hands off him; may be reclassifying his friend's and foe's.

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