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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Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
