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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: bentway who wrote (441275)12/18/2008 3:28:27 PM
From: one_less   of 1576963
 
Your attributions are poorly conceived. The idea was begun several decades ago in Egypt. Egyptian radicals went to Afghanistan to help repel the Soviet invasion. They recruited and trained others in Afghanistan and Pakistan, including Bin Laudin, who hadn't been radical prior to that. The success in Afghanistan emboldened them. As they returned home and spread the word, the momentum of this began to look unstoppable especially with the rapid organization and success of the Taliban which conquered a region overnight which had been uncontrollable since Alexander the Great. Other parts of the world had already begun to replicate this, and even more were considering it, at the time Bush stepped into office. Had Bush done nothing, it would be a very different world now, a much more radicalized world and it still could become that.
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