well.. care to think about the major communist nation that was supplied with
large quantities of US produced arms during WWII? USSR, maybe? Enemy of
democracy and all that - but, certainly receptive of the help. My mother
stenciled Cyrillic onto aircraft in Buffalo in 1943.

"Fly Guy" wrote in message ...
DALing wrote:

True, US supplying of Iraq was more the issue of "my enemy's
enemy is my friend" than anything else.

The new rule of thumb:

The enemy of my enemy is just another enemy.