To: Ilaine who wrote (204511 ) 9/27/2006 11:31:43 PM From: Maurice Winn Read Replies (2) | Respond to Look at General Dostum's background. He's a junior Saddam Hussein, still gathering power. globalsecurity.org I think it's a stretch to say he's "helping to rebuild it now": <The Afghanis we backed against the Soviets were either killed by the Taliban or moved to the US to get away from them, and the survivors have moved back to Afghanistan and are helping to rebuild it now. >bin Laden has often spoken of his rage at the loss of the Caliphate and desire to restore it, no doubt with himself in charge. Ahmadinejad has the same ambition. >It just takes the ability to think the unthinkable. > It seemed very thinkable to me. I thought it while sitting behind an open cockpit, one step away from control, some time before 911, while flying across the USA. It's a joke that the cockpit door has been bolted after the horse has bolted through it.
