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11-28-2009, 05:15 PM
zuludelta
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The Cold War really messed things up, lol
Yeah. I grew up in the frontline of the proxy war between the US and NATO-backed government forces and the China and Soviet Union-backed communist insurgency of the Philippines. For the most part, both sides were just as bad as the other when it came to avoiding civilian casualties and following rules of engagement. In fact, both sides routinely killed civilians in their own terror campaigns.
That's the thing about the Cold War. In the US and her allies' zeal to stamp out the worldwide rise of communism, they ended up supporting avowed "anti-communists" who were just as bad as their communist and socialist counterparts: religious nutjobs (the
mujahideen
), neo-fascists (Augusto Pinochet and Ferdinand Marcos), extreme right-wing ultra-nationalists (Saddam Hussein), and criminals-turned-warlords (Manuel Noriega).
In some cases, the US and NATO have managed to redress those lapses in judgment (Noriega's arrest once his drug trafficking activities became too blatant to ignore, for instance). But in many other cases, it was the civilian populations of their allies' countries that had to live with the repercussions of the proxy war, and I think that explains, at least partially, some of the anti-US and anti-Western sentiment found in the developing world today. I'm sure if the Soviet Union still existed, there would be a lot of anti-Soviet reprisals going on as well, borne out of their own actions during the Cold War (and a lot of the internal violence in the Russian Federation these days are probably directly linked to the activities of the former Soviet Union).
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