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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: LindyBill who wrote (29195)5/10/2002 6:39:37 PM
From: ThirdEye  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
The Government they set up in Iran and Afghanistan is and was a totalitarian regime, that, when stripped of the Religious front, is no different than any other collectivist "Peoples State" of the last century.

The Taliban were thugs who brutalized an entire nation under the cover of Religion. They destroyed the institutions. They destroyed the economy. There was nothing "collectivist" about them. They were no "Peoples State." They were of, by and for the clerics. They reminded us of Pol Pot and made the thugs running Burma look positively Jeffersonian. Calling them "left" or "right" is a pedantic exercise.
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