-- Ken Brown: > > > But there certainly was some assistance from the US to > > > the Taliban. US They didn't buy those 500 Stingers in > > > Kmart
James A. Donald: > >Commie lies. > > At the beginning of the recent Afghan war the US estimated > > the Taliban had at most fifty stingers. During the war it > > became apparent that they had far fewer, probably only the > > twelve that Hekmatyar gave them. Tyler Durden > 1. What makes these "lies" as you claim "commie"? Do you > think that by impugning US policy in the region we are by > implication stating that the forced exit of the Soviets was > bad? Yes. The demonization of US allies in Afghanistan is usually accompanied by a whitewash of the Soviet regime they were fighting -- as for example in the much repeated lie that the US intervened in Afghanistan before the Soviets did -- see the post http://groups.google.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ing.google.com for Nathan Folkert's response to this lie. > Quite saying "commie" all the time. All the commies are dead, > except for 1 in Cuba and a couple of really old guys in rural > China. Yet oddly, I encounter the ideology and program of Pol Pot every day in the newsgroups. Dan Clore is still defending the Khmer Rouge, and G*rd*n assures us we have no way of knowing that Kim in North Korea has done anything wrong, people are still arguing that Stalin's efforts to subdue Greece was a spontaneous uprising of the oppressed Greek masses against their fascist overlords, and that Stalin's alliance with Hitler was forced on him by the planned imperialist aggression of Britain and the US. > 2. You knowledge of history is as shoddy as your ability to > spot communists and their "lies". The CIA actively recruited > and trained Isalmic religious students and helped build and > arm the Taliban. The Taliban did not exist until long after the CIA had entirely forgotten about Afghanistan. As the enemies of the Taliban pointed out frequently and vigorously, the people who became the Taliban had no freedom fighter credentials, had not fought against the Soviet Union. Since they had not fought against the Soviets they had not received aid from the US. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG Xr+mXsZhgSN1VunXmTNlLq6WqQMj7FBTXHVmf9cG 4eeh8LJgnQvPDD/UTHjbkqVEnW+ciCAm09E3q9vA1
