🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 09:55:53 -0400, "zeptepe" <zeptepe@neap.net>
wrote:

>Hey,..i don't think anyone's forgetting anything.  But the fact still
>remains that the good old US of A has armed a lot of people who are now
>their enemies.

  That's either due to a change in government (Ala Shah and Kohemeni)
or they went and did something to another of our allies and thus,
incurred our collective wrath.
>
>In a sense, i can see their reasoning with some of the past mistakes becuase
>of the world was in a totally different mode of thinking at the time.  The
>Soviets were the boogyman and any enemy of the Soviets were friends of the
>States.  Only natural i guess.

  Not exactly, but something like that.
>
>I'm been wondering for a while now why the US didn't get more vocal about
>the Taleban rule a few years back.  I mean,.they say they're a beacon of
>freedom and i do think they do some good work.  But they knew the Taleban
>were freaks but didn't do a damn thing.  And the fact that their good friend
>the Saudis were only one of 3 countries to recognize the Taleban is even
>stranger.  This is all kind of off on a tangent here, but i just don't know
>why they didn't do more to shut down the Taleban.  Or at least say to the
>Saudi (a bunch of whom flew 2 planes into the WTC), hey,..we don't agree
>with you people supporting such a group of wingnuts.  Because if i ever saw
>a group that had no right to rule a country, it was the Taleban.

  We helped them free themselves from Russia, but the problem was, we
LEFT them alone when we really should have stayed and helped them
bring about a democratic rule or something close.

  So, we really have no one to blame, that a bunch of religious
zealots took over and basically helped the country into a deeper hole
then before. Then came 9-11 and this placed a target over them.

  Reminds me of Iran when the Shah was booted. People thought "Oh boy!
We're going to live better now!" But man, did they have a major line
up in the execution sections when the Komeheni slammed his fist down,
along with his band of followers.

  They went so far backward, they went far beyond the bend.