[slashdev]

Whether that's true or not, the way they were spreading communism throughout Asia and Africa was alarming. The US policy of containment was definitely not the right one in hindsight, but it's very difficult to make the case that it was clearly the wrong thing to do at the time - and decisions are not not made with the benefit of hindsight, nor is it fair to judge them that way.

It's very common to say later, that decision I made was a mistake, but if I was in that same situation with the knowledge I had at the time, I'd still make the mistake.

[BelenusMordred]

And yet Wahhabism is being blatantly pushed across the globe by the Saudis with not a word from the US or it's allies?

I like to hope they are actually doing something in the shadows to stop the spread of such extreme ideologies but there's a part of me that thinks the Western world has no problem with it occurring. Just another war and another enemy to fight down the track.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_propagation_of_S...