Richie,

A columnist in the New York Post is hardly worth the electrons through the air to read. It was a complete piece of tripe. I especially laughed at the term "corrupt United Nations".

A few of the "thugs" mentioned in the piece of tripe actually had US backing for quite a while before the US decided to call them bad guys. I am talking about Saddam, Noriega and the Taliban. The Taliban was armed, paid, and trained by the US during the Russian invasion of Afghanistan. Saddam was tied to the US through aid when Iraq was needed as a buffer to Russia for 20 years. Noriega received substantive US Army training in Panama.