It’s just the same old same old. The U.S. is the country that bought Suharto and saddam hussein to power, that cosied up with the Khmer Rouge and pinochet, that

It’s just the same old same old. The U.S. is the country that bought Suharto and saddam hussein to power, that cosied up with the Khmer Rouge and pinochet, that trained and supported bin laden, enabled the contras and Mubarak, etc. - and these are just a handful of recent examples. The only difference is that these guys are perhaps more brazen about it, as they’ve realised it makes no difference to their electability.