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To: RMF who wrote (35443)	5/8/2009 6:28:24 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 71588

Do the Jihadists in Afghanistan in the 1980's ring any bells? Can you develop a meaningful and relevant argument based on that thought? Would al Quaeda even exist if we hadn't funded and armed their fighters in Afghanistan during their fight against the Russians? 1 - That's not relevant to Hezbollah. 2 - Its a "have you stopped beating your wife type of question. The question contains an assumption of fact. An assumption that in this case is not true. We didn't fund Al Qaeda. And I don't just mean in a technical sense that we funded them before they where Al Qaeda, or that we funded them indirectly, we didn't fund them. We funded people fighting on the same side as them against the Soviets, but that isn't the same thing. Iran is USING Hezbollah and Hamas the same way we used the Jihadists in Afghanistan. No it isn't. We supported resistance in Afghanistan to the Soviet invasion. Our arming of that resistance ended with the end of the invasion. Iran's support of Hezbollah predated and continued after the invasion of Lebanon by Israel. The forces armed where not equivalent and the purposes they where armed for and time frames of the support are not equivalent.