[Hoot Gibson]

I understand the policy of containment as a broad policy, but is giving money/weapons/training to the Freedom Fighters in Afghanistan and all these things to the Contras (who were known to have violated many human rights) any different? Did their loyalties really fall with the United States?

Whether or not their loyalties fell with the United States was of no consequence. What was important was that they were fighting against communists and assisting them with that effort drained resources from the Soviet Union. You seem to have more of an issue with past U.S. actions, which were at least arguably in our national interest, than you do with the Obama administration's support of rebels in the Arab world who have actually been fervently anti-American. Why is that?