memories, all alone in the moonlight

Submitted by bos (United Kingdom), Jul 21, 2008 at 03:28

The Taliban would appear to have been a homegrown (regional not national) creation of the Pakistani Deobandi Maddrassa system that had been built and run with Saudi money, after inception there was significant cooperation from the ISI and much more money from Saudi Arabia, but no significant assistance cooperation or even contact with America (with the exception of some oil company negotiations much later.)

Al-Qaida? Its own leadership is very clear that it never took aid from America. The americans did give aid to the Afghan Jihad against the Soviets, but it was significantly less than the western media and islamist apologists generalisations have implied and it was filtered through other nations, not directly. Osama and his pets seem to have been funded directly by a network of his own creation.

How convenient for your ilk to dispense with memory entirely and replace it with intrinsically dishonest and nonsensical protestations of victimhood.

I'm going to guess that you have often thrown some generic blame at America for abandoning Afghanistan after the Jihad (even though America was never there) yet twice as often you have insisted America should end its interference in Afghanistan, Iraq and lets see........everywhere?

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