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To: Ilaine who wrote (100924)	6/10/2003 8:08:04 AM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

>>I have no idea who "we" includes but it doesn't include me<< Congratulations. You and Massoud (see link below) were among the few to not see the Taliban takeover favorably. Accounts in US newspapers at the time (mid-96) were quite favorable, and the US administration was evidently pleased. After all the Pakistani secret service that supported the Taliban were still buddies with the CIA. old.smh.com.au >>lump all together the Taliban, Saddam, and the Iranian mullahs<< You are putting words in my post -- read it again. I lumped Saddam and the Taliban together, not the mullahs. We were against the mullahs, that's why we supported Saddam, including providing him with WMD, and not objecting when he slaughtered the Kurds. Here is a brief history of the Reagan/Bush/Rumsfeld support of Saddam, his WMD and the silence when he gassed the Kurds. We were buddies with him right up until his invasion of Kuwait. washingtonpost.com >>Greek Orthodox<< I am agnostic. Religion does not affect my political views. PS. I obviously use "we" as a substitute for "the US", since I have been participating in US elections since 1972 (I was a campaign worker for McGovern) and consider myself responsible for the governments we elect.

To: Ilaine who wrote (100924)	6/10/2003 8:17:13 AM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

CB, Kyrosi is right. The Taliban takeover initially as i remember it, was viewed as favorable by some US policy makers. It provided a cordon sanitaire around iran. In their defense few here knew at the time how obscene Taliban rule would become internally. Again, short term considerations trumped long term interests in the pre-9/11 world as we continued to use cold war policys in the post cold war period. Hopefully this type of thinking has changed now. mike