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To: SevenMinusOne; world weary; Gondring
There is a difference between part-time/bought Taliban and hardcore Taliban....

If they don't believe what the Taliban believe what makes them Taliban? Did they just chop off women's hands and cut their tongues out in a 'go-along-to-get-along' gesture to the real Taliban?

Just how much are we going to have to pay the part-time/bought Taliban to be not-Taliban and for how long? When they grow unhappy with their payments will they just form a union of part-time/bought Talibanis and go on strike for a bigger bribe? Is that what 0bammi's offering them, a stake in SEIU?

60 posted on 01/25/2010 1:21:49 PM PST by TigersEye (It's the Marxism, stupid!)
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To: TigersEye
If they don't believe what the Taliban believe what makes them Taliban?

Most of the "Taliban" soldiers in afghanistan right now are paid by the Taliban to be there, to conduct ops year round. I'm not saying they don't believe in much of the same things as the hardcore Ideologogue Taliban, but they don't believe in them as strongly. If they wern't being paid, or the hardcore guys wern't around then we wouldn't be having as much problem with them, likely they'd go back to their farms and merely gripe about the situation.

You might want to hunt down leftists and democrats, might even find it fun, but you can't make a living at it unless someone is paying you to do it, if no one is willing to support you in this, you're probably not going to do it are you? Its the same situation for them, killing westerners is something some of them might want to do, but taking care of the farm and family is more important if there ain't no money in it.

62 posted on 01/25/2010 8:55:54 PM PST by world weary
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