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Like we ignored Afghanistan for over a decade, while
the Taliban let Bin Laden run terrorist training camps.

Ignored? We financed and armed the Taliban, professor.

Like hell we ever did.

Usama bin Laden was on our CIA payroll for years.

Irrelevant to who financed and armed the Taliban.

It's relevant you pathetic twerp. The very roots
of the Taliban was the armed resistance against
the Soviet Union's occupation of Afghanistan.

Not a ****ing clue, as always. That was the
Mujahidin, you stupid pig ignorant clown.

Good grief, what a moron. The Taliban
was the major faction of the Mujahidin.

Not a ****ing clue, as always. They came LONG after the Mujahidin
had seen the russians off with their tails between their legs.
http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/asia/afghan-bck1023.htm

Their principal suppliers and trainers were the U.S. and Saudi Arabia.

"Not a ****ing clue, as always. Their principal suppliers and
trainers were PAKISTAN, you stupid pig ignorant clown.
http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/asia/afghan-bck1023.htm
Phase Three.

Do some research on the history of bin Laden and Mullah Omar

Irrelevant to your pig ignorant drivel about the Taliban.

Exactly. And had the US tried to install a pro-democracy govt in
Afghanistan after the Russians retreated, the same people bitching
about everything we are doing today, would have been bitching about
that too. They would have said the US has no business medling there,
we should just leave the people of Afghanistan alone. Well, that's
what we did and look what happened. The Taliban and Bin Laden
turned it into a terrorist training clamp, where 50,000 were trained,
most of those during Clinton's adminstration while the US just watched.

Yeah, and he took a long time to do anything about Kosovo etc too.

It's nice being Monday morning quarterbacks who can bitch
about everything, without ever having to make a decision in
the real world, never knowing what the outcome will be.
They particularly like to start with the premise that the US
is always out to do bad things in the world and is responsible
in some way for just about everything that goes wrong.

Yeah, in spades with Somalia and Beirut.