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To: Hoplite
>>>Lastly, the US never supported the Taliban: Afghan history seems to be as mysterious to you as does that of Bosnia.

Thanks, pal, without your input I WOULD NOT FIND THIS GEM

"Between 1994 and 1996 the USA supported the Taliban politically through its allies Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, essentially because Washington viewed the Taliban as anti-Iranian, anti-Shia and pro-Western. The USA conveniently ignored the Taliban's own Islamic fundamentalist agenda, its suppression of women and the consternation they created in Central Asia largely because Washington was not interested in the larger picture. Between 1995 and 1997 US support was even more driven because of its backing the Unocal [oil pipeline] project--even though at the time the USA had no strategic plan towards accessing Central Asian energy and thought that pipelines could be built without resolutions to regional civil wars. "

Hoppie, we are hell of a team together :-) I am only afraid that your Mujahedeen friends are not too happy.

61 posted on 09/10/2001 4:53:59 PM PDT by DTA
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To: DTA
Great, genius. Now all you have to do is find some way that this support manifested itself other than in an editorial in a Hong Kong newspaper.

Have fun.

If Izetbegovic is shown to have been responsible for the activities of Delalic, Mucic, Delic, and Landzo, then he'll answer for it. And not run around like a little bitch trying to hide from his past like some other individuals we've seen. He wasn't present at Karadjordevo, and so didn't get a head's up that he should be planning the expulsion of Croats and Serbs from Bosnia - but then he wasn't interested in that in the first place, regardless of what you would have everyone believe. There are Orthodox and Catholic churches still standing in Sarajevo which are damning to your argument, but like so many others, you choose to ignore that which doesn't fit your world view. The joke of a website that you got your article from is ample proof of that. (Either the Serbs didn't commit any war crimes, or balkanpeace is just another Serb propaganda outlet - you decide.)

Lastly, I feel no more guilty today than I do any other day.

How about yourself?

NEXT...

67 posted on 09/11/2001 9:25:49 PM PDT by Hoplite
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