Re: Call Me A Liberal

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From: trebor
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 19:58

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"gatt" <gatt@hevanet.com> wrote:

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>"Baxter" <baxter.spamblock@baxcode.com> wrote in message
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>> Taliban is gone - I don't see much improvement.
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>Probably haven't been to Afghanistan much, though, have you?

The "improvements" we see are entirely in the big cities where there is
an American presence, and don't include the uncomfortable unimprovements
such as the assassination of government officials in broad daylight,
something which wouldn't have happened under the Taliban.

But of course, the question isn't who's nicer, the Taliban or the
Northern Alliance. Remember that the Taliban came to be thanks to the
cruelty of the Northern Alliance (whom we have just put back into
power).

The question is whether or not our actions in Afghanistan were an
effective response to 9/11. Well, you tell me: we killed more Afghan
civilians (who had no dog in this fight) than Al Qaeda killed ours, and
we never did catch any of the bad guys.

It's sad in a shake-your-head kind of way when our biggest
accomplishment so far is parading around some stupid rich kid from Marin
and a French Moroccan who doesn't know what pleading guilty means.

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