Australian charged with trying to join kurds in iraq

The problem is...Half the people on that list deserved what they got. Ngo Dinh Diem got a dose of royal karma one day, and that was that (our problem there was follow through to a real bad idea afterward), Pineapple head DID abuse U.S. servicemen and at least one wife with the PDF at checkpoints leading up to the final move to squash that bug. Of course, I'll grant we'd been in business with the runt before we went to kill him ..but that doesn't make HIM any better of a person, or less deserving of his fate.

You have a point with Castro. He did come to Washington first, and only after being told to literally 'go home and make an appointment' did he call Moscow to a happy 'Hello Comrade!'. That poor pooch got it right from the start for a pooch-screw. Then again, Castro is no sweetheart, and his prisons hold many a political prisoner to this day (the last we had were unceremoniously released not that long ago, and were tied up with the Puerto Rican rebel/independence fighters).

You know the one that gets me tho, going back to Vietnam? Uncle Ho-ho was a deep, strong potential ALLY but we 'Frenched' him for a buddy that would help pull us into World War II by their utter worthlessness as an ally. Of course...this being in terms of historical positions then. Uncle Ho was asking the U.S. to support the freedom for Vietnam ..not after World War II, but after World War ONE. Long before there was any reason to make anyone an enemy with anything...but talk about one blow off that came back to define BAD decisions in history.

All in all? I think its a mixed bag for the goods and bads of war and how such things have gone in our history. What I think is really striking is how preventable the bad is in hindsight.