As we well learned when we funded a bunch of promising fellows in Afghanistan to fight the Soviets. Cheap shots aside, though, the primary argument against Iran training and assisting AQI is that AQI is not only attacking American targets (certainly not a bad thing where Iran's Qods Force is concerned) but also Shia targets like Sadr's Mahdi army (certainly a bad thing where Iran's Ayatollah and mullahs are concerned).
To drop into your Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact analogy, this would be like the USSR supplying arms and ammunition to Charles de Gaulle's Free French forces in occupied France to the detriment of the French Communist Underground; enemy of my enemy is one thing, but the enemy of my friend is something else entirely.
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Date: 2008-03-26 03:11 am (UTC)To drop into your Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact analogy, this would be like the USSR supplying arms and ammunition to Charles de Gaulle's Free French forces in occupied France to the detriment of the French Communist Underground; enemy of my enemy is one thing, but the enemy of my friend is something else entirely.