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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (166411)	7/18/2005 11:43:26 AM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"We got what we wanted and then we left without a thank you...And so the noble sentiments, genuine as they had been for some people, became nothing but a marketing ploy." At that time American policy was dead set against involvement in Nation building. We did not fore see the opportunistic Taliban movement. In its early phases it looked fairly decent. Here was this guy OBL who was a hero of the fight for independence. He was organizing forces to create stability. The Taliban forces fought the local war lords and protected the people of afghanistan from road raiders, bush whackers and such. The majority of people in Afganistan are Muslim and this growing group had declared themselves to be the champions of Muslims and Islam ... then the other shoe began to drop; a tyrannical despotism that was very hardline fundamentalist and unfortunately an imported, oppressive, and corrupt form of Islam, became the rule of order. Its easy after the fact to see how things went sour. But it is hard for me to lay blame at the feet of American policy of that day. I doubt the American people would have supported our continued involvement after the Ruskies left. They would, however, support that now if we could redo it. ... which we are. Hopefully, we will not create a repeat of this whole chain of events in Iraq by bending to the pressure of protesters.