TOLD YOU SO.....
Biden to propose reconstruction if Afghanistan attacked
October 3, 2001 Posted: 6:38 PM EDT (2238 GMT)
By CNN State Department Correspondent Andrea Koppel and State Department Producer Elise Labott
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Joseph Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is expected to propose legislation for a long-term reconstruction and development plan in Central and South Asia following any military campaign against Afghanistan, an aide to the senator told CNN on Wednesday.
The senator will propose the plan, similar in nature to the Marshall Plan's reconstruction of Europe after World War II, in an effort to create an economic and social climate in which terrorists will not be able to operate, the aide said.
The aide said the initiative would cover Afghanistan and the Central Asian countries, including Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan, as well as Pakistan.
"It is about draining the swamp," he said. "(Biden) is looking ahead, thinking strategically about what comes next for the region."
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"Draining the swamp"?! LOL! I'm afraid the US's not gonna drain anything while re-building Afghanistan... See, the challenge is much larger and much more dreadful. Sure enough, Afghanistan is a hotbed of subversive Islamic activism and, somehow, acts as a pool of terrorist manpower. Hence, if you crack down on the "terror incubator", you've solved a good deal of the issue --but what about their recruiters?? While the Sept 11 attacks were perpetrated in a terroristic fashion, their prime mover was fascistic in nature: these Islamic hijackers were merely the tools of Eurasia's rising Fascism.
Granted, Zbigniew Brzezinski was right...
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