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To: combjelly who wrote (352801)	9/28/2007 6:38:07 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575310

CJ, > Since the Taliban was rooting out the opium production, there wasn't much in the way of income. Having someone with big bucks paying them to host the training camps and other parts of al Qaeda was a big incentive. Money isn't the only incentive, or else the Taliban would be more closely aligned with the oil sheiks. The Taliban wasn't rooting out the opium production, by the way. They were trying to control prices by reducing the supply. In other words, they were trying to maximize their profits from opium. I still don't see you successfully dividing up the goals of Al Qaeda with the goals of the Taliban. You once tried to "nuance" the difference between ideology, capability, and goals, but you have not provided a shred of proof that the Taliban wants to limit themselves to a rugged, mountainous, resource-poor hunk of land called Afghanistan. It doesn't even pass the smell test. > You are painting with a broad brush for ideological reasons. And that won't yield a solution that will actually work. I am acknowledging how widespread the problem is across the global community. You want to keep treating all of this as isolated problems with separate, "nuanced" solutions, but there are way too many commonalities with most terrorist attacks in modern history to ignore. Tenchusatsu