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To: Alexandre
Farmers in this case seem much more linked to the property of others as well.

You can't avoid the fact that one group expropriated the property of another. It doesn't matter whether it's Serb farmers taking over towns in Bosnia (also an egregious simplification, as non-Bosnian Serbs were in on the kill from the beginning) or Zimbabwean veterans taking over farms in their neck of the woods - it's theft. The rule of law is the hard thing to establish, and seems to have a rather tenuous hold at best in certain parts of the world.

Our faithful allies in Afghanistan were allies of convenience against the Soviets. Once the Soviets left, they couldn't offer us anything and were allowed to pretty much chart their own course. The Taliban appeared 5 years after the Soviets withdrew. The West isn't responsible for every A-hole in the world, regardless of what some would have you believe - thank Brezhnev for giving us cause to fear a Soviet move on the Indian Ocean for the support we gave to the Mujhadeen in Afghanistan.

Don't even play like I'm going to be the one to make you knowledgeable, that's going to require time and an effort on your part that has shown itself to be far beyond what most on this forum are willing to undertake.

63 posted on 09/10/2001 5:41:48 PM PDT by Hoplite
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To: Hoplite
>>>>"the US never supported the Taliban" <<<<<<

Partner, the history of Bosnia is as mysterious to you as history of Afganistan.

One difficult word for today: Denial ( hint: not a river in Egypt)
Don't give up, one day you will figure it out.

Do you know that Izetbegovic had command responsibility for Celebici Concentration Camp, not only command responsibility for 7TH Brigade?

"On that occasion, Alija Izetbegovic also visited tunnel number 9 in which a number of inmates, most of whom went abroad after the release, were kept. These people said that President Izetbegovic was with the group of prisoners who had loaded the ammunition..."

64 posted on 09/10/2001 8:19:25 PM PDT by DTA
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