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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (160285)	3/9/2006 9:53:06 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793977

Germany was totally crushed in WWII in a grinding war of attrition, and the allies followed it up with a thorough de-Natizification policy. Things are different in Afghanistan. We toppled the Taliban quickly, and there is still widespread sympathy for them among the Pashtun tribal population. President Karzai and the allies are trying to co-opt and rehabilitate many of the former Taliban into participating in the new Afghan democracy. So if we can help turn some of these guys around by educating them in the USA, then it's worth a try. Obviously these people have to be screened carefully, but from what I've read the guy at Yale wasn't a very hardcore Taliban and didn't even like wearing a black turban. If inviting him here helps achieve our policy goals, then we should do it.