Re: U.S. secretly backed Syrian opposition groups, cables ...

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Its rather amusing how much we are interfering with other nations but scream bloody murder if other countries try the same with us. Of course, they do, particularly sneaking millions of dollars per year to political campaigns. That's also not counting corporate influence through other means and dirty deals in the shadows.

Thing is, this whole mess doesn't seem to have been well thought out. Bush had this mania for spreading democracy around the world. What he didn't realize is that such a thing has to come from within, by a cultural change and not imposed by a handful of radicals as has been happening. All it has done is increase instability in an already unstable part of the world. It looks to me like it is all getting out of hand.

In a message dated 4/18/2011 1:53:30 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, no_reply writes:

The State Department has secretly financed Syrian political opposition groups and related projects, including a satellite TV channel that beams anti-government programming into the country, according to previously undisclosed diplomatic cables.