On Mon, 23 May 2011 13:13:57 -0400, "Robert Green"
wrote:

"HeyBub" wrote in message
om...
Robert Green wrote:

The US never supported the Taliban. The Taliban wasn't organized
until 1996. We didn't support ANYBODY in that country after the
Russians left in 1988.

Sure we did. Out of the $20B we've given Pakistan, clearly *some* of
it has gone to the Taliban.

Clearly? I'd appreciate a cite.

Did anyone see Restrepo (2010)?
The US sent a pallet of cash to Afghanistan.

During the film the troops admit to eating fresh steak, yet the
negotiator for the US did not even want to pay the local man for the
cow they killed.

(The cow was injured in a fence so it had to be killed)