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To: Doren who wrote (570420)	4/30/2004 12:19:50 AM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

You don't think that defeating the evil empire was a strategic goal? What was it then? That's the big problem I have with our foreign policy. It's tactical, always. Very rarely do we act strategically.

To: Doren who wrote (570420)	4/30/2004 12:50:28 AM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The Taliban did not exist until 1994. The Soviets left Afghanistan in 1989, and the regime installed by the Soviets ended in 1992. You are confusing the Taliban with the Mujahidin. Now granted some of the Taliban were former Mujahidin, but the Taliban took over the country by defeating the different Mujahidin groups, one-by-one. re:"It's a question of semantics whether you call them the Taliban or not. I dare say some of the RPGs used against our troops in Iraq now were purchased with American tax money." More likely, those RPGs were purchased from the diverted moneys from the "Oil For Food Program".