True on Salafis, but Bush also deposed and killed a Secular Socialist Anti-Islamist Baathist leader and replaced him with radical Shiites from Iran, the Dawa Party, some of whom were convicted of murdering one or two U.S. Diplomats in Kuwait.
This idea of the Great Game of playing Islamists off each other — and suppressing dangerous secular democratic ambitions — was promoted by Bernard Lewis and many others. I think this was originally the British strategy towards neo-colonialism in the M.E. The book War Against the Jews (sic?) by Loftus describes how State Dept assistant and Wall St attorney Alan Dulles secured financing and arms for Ibn Saud, so his Wahabbi or Salafi gang could beat his enemies turn the Arabian peninsula into Saudi Arabia.
Ditto with the CIA sponsored Wahabbi or Salafi coup in Indonesia in the mid-60s.
