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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (33864)	10/17/2001 9:02:39 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 82486

Many of the Taliban were the Mujahadin The individuals where yes. My comment was that we never sold or gave weapons to the Taliban. Members of the Taliban before they joined the Taliban where not part of the Taliban. I will agree that one practical effect of our efforts was to cause the Taliban to wind up with more weapons. But it also helped the Soviet Empire to collapse. If all the weapons we gave the Mujahadin or all of those weapons that are now in the hands of the Taliban where to disapear right now, it wouldn't effect things to much. The main benefit we would have is that we could use helicopters with less risk and our planes could fly lower but we have dominence in the air of Afghanistan even with the stingers. Most of the Taliban's weapons used to be Soviet weapons or weapons of the puppet Afghan government the the USSR tried to prop up. Tim