Posted by NoNoBadDog! on 06/02/06 19:15

"Ralf Hutter" <yowsa@mindblown.net> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 2 Jun 2006 00:25:16 -0700, "Richard Crowley"
> <rcrowley@xpr7t.net> wrote:
>
>>"Ralf Hutter" wrote...
>>> And it is a war WE instigated. Our lousy foreign policy of the last
>>> 40 years has come back to haunt us.
>>
>>What a good little sheep you are. Believe anything you
>>get from CNN and NYT, et.al., do you?
>
> No, I'm an independent skeptic. And I don't believe a lot of Fox News
> either (hint).
>
> The whole Taliban/ Al Qaida thing germed out of the Russo-Afghan war
> of the '80's. We supplied the Muslim religious wingnuts with war
> hardware and training against our common "enemy", those bad commies.
> (strange though, those commies never rammed planes into any of our
> buildings....I guess they weren't 'devoted' enough?)
> Well, the war ended in defeat for the pinko commies, and soon those
> loyal friends-in-arms of ours, the religious nut jobs, had extra time
> to train for more ambitious goals---- The Great Satan!
>
> How would this have played out if we'd stayed out of the Afghan war
> entirely?
> Would the World Trade Center still be standing?
> Would all those lives lost on 9-11 still be with their loved ones
> today?
> Would we be more credible to the rest of the world regarding our
> superior morality?
>
> I don't know. But I would have preferred it to have played out that
> way.
>
> Revenge always comes back to haunt you. Turn the other cheek!
>
> Cheers, JT
>
>
>

The Muslims have been fighting each other long before the 80's.

Bobby

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