-- James A. Donald:
The reason that taliban caught in Afghanistan, and people with the wrong accent caught in Afghanistan, tend to wind up in Guantanamo Bay is not because Afghan warlords are taking orders from US overlords, it is because Afghan warlords are fighting a holy war against the same people who are our enemies.
Bill Stewart:
But the Taliban were the US warlords' *friends*
Learn some history. The current holy war was going at a slow burn even during the war against the Soviet Union. Once the Soviet Union fell back, any pretense of alliance was dropped, and the flames were in plain sight. These terrorists have been bugging various muslims they deem insufficiently muslim long before they were bugging the west. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG wUajaZLtoiBjJKFNy8BqbXfYOsgcNOgbhUPRDpeN 4bqrDBnbVHsw8K/4rUF8UkC0k60jpoqzZoKNYpz03