Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110331:16:16:00
On this. it says it's undecided on whether arming rebels is the right thing to do. part of the reason for that might be based on history. the problems that the strategy has caused in the past. we want you to take a look at a few of the nations where this has played out before. 1984, the united states arms afghan rebels who were fighting off of the soviets. little did we know those same weapons that we gave to the afghan rebels were pointed at our. current u.s. troops. but in the 1980s, the united states also armed iraq during the iran-iraq war in an effort to kind of turn the tide there. that ...
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