Robert Gates: Only Modest Troop Reductions In Afghanistan

we've always supported dictators; that is, 'our' dictators.



however, when they'd served our purposes, we always got rid of them, or helped do so. . .Noriega, Mubarark, Hussein, etc. . .



Khaddafi's the latest, but the rules in his case aren't quite the same, so it's likely to be a bit more complicate­d.
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