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[Bill Stewart]

At 02:29 PM 12/11/2004, James A. Donald wrote:
>If Afghanistan was subject to US jurisdiction, it would not
>have a bumper opium crop.  If Saudi Arabia was subject to US
>jurisdiction, they would not be funding terrorism.  [...]
>
>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.

But the Taliban were the US warlords' *friends*.
After all, that's why the US paid them $43m for doing
such a great job in their holy war against opium farmers.





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