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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: MSI who wrote (68135)1/23/2003 7:12:27 PM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
that blowback from training camps was a "just a darn mistake"...


If you followed the Afghanistan war with the Russians, and I did, you know that our big concern was that the Muslims would turn on us. Some of them did. It was still the right policy. We just did not follow up hard enough on Osama before 911. As much as the actions of the CIA and the FBI over the last 10 years piss me off, I still remember that "Hindsight is 20/20."

a belligerent position... can't take "yes"

I think you are suffering from a "My gang is out of power" condition. Quite common here, and incurable in the foreseeable future. :>)