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Lydia Leftcoast

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Sat Sep-02-06 01:37 PM
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18. If the U.S. had used the money being wasted in Iraq

to rebuild Afghanistan in a sustainable way, such as rebuilding the infrastructure with the labor of ordinary Afghan nationals and organizing grassroots projects in the villages, it would have won friends throughout the Islamic world.

It was our moral obligation, since it was U.S. funding of the Mujaheddin against the Afghan Marxist government that led said government to call for Soviet intervention (yes, Virginia, they were INVITED in) and set off 20 years of civil war.

(Not only that. Osama Bin Laden and the other radical Islamists, including the Taliban, came out of those anti-Soviet guerilla movements. Your Karma at work.)

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