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So we definitely have a moral responsibility and especially now, today, the weapons being used to kill so many Palestinians are American weapons and american funds is essentially being used for this. But there's a political liability which I think is something that we fail to look at because, too often, there's so much blowback from our intervention in areas that we shouldn't be involved in.
You know, Hamas, if you look at the history you'll find out that Hamas was encouraged and really started by Israel because they wanted Hamas to counteract Yasser Arafat. You say, "Yeah, it was better then and it served its purpose but we didn't want Hamas to do this." So then, we as Americans say, "Well, we have such a good system we're going to impose this on the world. We're going to invade Iraq and teach people how to be democrats. We want free elections." We encourage the palestinians to have a free election. They do and they elect Hamas. So, we first indirectly and directly through Israel help established Hamas. Then we have an election that Hamas becomes dominant so we have to kill them. You know, it just doesn't make sense.
During the 80's, you know, we were allied with Osama bin Laden and we were contending with the Soviets. It was at that time our C.I.A. thought it was good if we radicalize the Muslim world. So we financed the madrassa schools to radicalize the Muslims in order to compete with the -- with the Soviets. There's too much blowback.
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