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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (28031)2/1/2005 8:34:30 PM
From: DavesM   of 90947
 
Laz,

This is a small point, but the Taliban did not exist till after the Soviets were defeated in Afghanistan. Members of the Taliban may have fought the Soviets, but the Taliban itself never did.

re:"This is the same as claiming we were allies with the Taliban during the Soviet-Afghanistan war because we supplied the Taliban with weapons. Or that we were Saddam's ally because we supported and supplied him during the Iran-Iraq War. There is a difference between "ally" and common enemy". The British were our allies; we shared a common enemy with Russia"
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