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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (92061)	9/12/2001 5:43:01 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (2) of 132070

One difference is that we backed Bin Laden to fight off another colonialist, a fairly good moral cause, whereas we usually back despots because they allow us to cherry-pick resources or sell Coca-Cola. Still, it is extraordinarily ironic. I'm thinking the hard-line Taliban takeover of Afghanistan looks like so many previous instances in which a colonialist (in the case Russia) drives a country in to the arms of reactionaries. E.g., the Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran, a backlash against the Western puppet/despot Shah. Does this assessment make sense? Tom

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