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Taliban Fight Each Other Over Traditions
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| 7-9-07
| Jim Dunnigan
Posted on 07/09/2007 4:17:23 AM PDT by Renfield
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Now, if only the Senate Dems will follow suit......
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posted on
07/09/2007 4:17:25 AM PDT
by
Renfield
To: Renfield
The Muslim "religion" is written, organized, planned and executed with all the fine reasoning and deft organization of the pointy-haired manager in "Dilbert". It's practitioners are venomous and either are openly deceitful or or are complicit by omission, and their leader, if he exists, cannot keep them fed or happy, bringing only destruction in his wake and requiring them to allow the deaths of their children if it will only harm the "infidel". If Allah were all that powerful, HE would smite the infidel, and leave their children alone.
The only thing stupider than having a power-structure defined so that any pinhead who declares himself an Imam can "proclaim" that "Allah says this!" is allowing people to die because of it. Any group that poclaims that those outside of it are barbarians, and yet spends all its time and effort at bringing death and desruction in the most gruesome ways to everyone without and many within it's following is not to be followed, trusted, or indeed tolerated.
The holy god of "tolerance" is what brought us 9/11. We should no longer tolerate madmen.
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posted on
07/09/2007 4:33:59 AM PDT
by
50sDad
(Angels on asteroids are abducting crop circles!)
To: 50sDad
The holy god of "tolerance" is what brought us 9/11. We should no longer tolerate madmen.But, ah, (thinks the Left), the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
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posted on
07/09/2007 4:38:28 AM PDT
by
yankeedame
("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
To: Renfield
Interesting article. Thanks for posting.
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posted on
07/09/2007 4:39:54 AM PDT
by
Miztiki
(My vote will be for the best candidate, but my heart and soul longs for God's Kingdom)
To: Renfield
I have always wondered just why anyone would fight over Afghanistan. For centuries, India, then Britain, then Russia and now America is fighting to control this barren rocky land.
What is it? Oil?
To: R.W.Ratikal
What has been in it, off and on for centuries, is a power vaccuum. The power with the greatest collective ego always rushes in to fill it, and then withdraws when it gets tired.
There is nothing of any intrinsic value there, beyond the souls of the Afghanis.
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posted on
07/09/2007 4:48:34 AM PDT
by
Renfield
To: Renfield
“Get yer program! Get yer programs here. Ya can’t follow the game without your program.”
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posted on
07/09/2007 4:53:01 AM PDT
by
dread78645
(Evolution. A doomed theory since 1859.)
To: R.W.Ratikal
I have always wondered just why anyone would fight over Afghanistan. For centuries, India, then Britain, then Russia and now America is fighting to control this barren rocky land. What is it? Oil?Cute chicks.
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posted on
07/09/2007 4:58:48 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
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To: Renfield
The Taliban moderates (or "traditionalists") believe their radical foes have turned into homicidal maniacs.The irony here is truly stunning...
Mark
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posted on
07/09/2007 5:01:03 AM PDT
by
MarkL
(Listen, Strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government)
To: R.W.Ratikal
India, then Britain, then Russia and now America is fighting to control this barren rocky land.Actually, prior to the British conquest of India, Afghanistan repeatedly conquered India (or large sections of it), not the other way around.
I believe the last time India conquered Afghanistan was in the 3rd century BC, under Asoka.
Britain and Russia competed for influence in the country because it was a buffer state between their empires, and both were under the delusion that a Russian conquest of India through Afghanistan was feasible.
The US got interested only as a way first of draining Russian resources and willpower during the Cold War, and then to strike back at al Queda and the Taliban.
IOW, there is no consistent reason for powers being interested.
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posted on
07/09/2007 5:08:43 AM PDT
by
Sherman Logan
(It's not the heat, it's the stupidity.)
To: Renfield
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posted on
07/09/2007 5:49:35 AM PDT
by
Valin
(History takes time. It is not an instant thing.)
To: Renfield
Let the Taliban devour themselves.
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posted on
07/09/2007 5:50:43 AM PDT
by
yldstrk
(My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
To: Sherman Logan; R.W.Ratikal
Afghanistan bordered Imperial Iran,which made it vital for both Russia & Britain to fight for influence from the late 1800s to early 1900s.
To: sukhoi-30mki
So why was Imperial Iran so critical?
You may want to rethink your timespan. It’s really short. :)
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posted on
07/09/2007 10:23:33 AM PDT
by
Sherman Logan
(It's not the heat, it's the stupidity.)
To: Sherman Logan
The time span I mentioned is over 40 years-sorry I wasn’t clear enough-or till the Russian revolution,when the Russians stopped focussing(temporarily) on Iran.Iran was critical because of it’s location-pretty much similar as that of Afghanistan,though it had the advantage of a large number of ports as well as land borders with the Persian Gulf states-essentially a bridge between the Persian Gulf & the Indian colonies.
Not to mention oil,after 1900 or so.
To: sukhoi-30mki
Didn’t know if you were talking about 1898 to 1902. :)
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posted on
07/09/2007 8:39:11 PM PDT
by
Sherman Logan
(It's not the heat, it's the stupidity.)
To: Sherman Logan
Nope-from about 1870 until after 1910.
To: sukhoi-30mki
I’m aware that Britain and Russia battled each other for influence over Persia.
Part of the old Russian drive towards icefree ports, I guess.
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posted on
07/09/2007 8:52:13 PM PDT
by
Sherman Logan
(It's not the heat, it's the stupidity.)
To: Renfield
The House Dems are already following suit.
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posted on
07/09/2007 9:07:50 PM PDT
by
no dems
(The only way to stop the Fairness Doctrine: Elect a President in '08 who would veto it.)
To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; KlueLass; ...
Traditions, like how best to kill the largest number of victims simultaneously.
“Tastes Great!” “Less Filling!”
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posted on
07/10/2007 9:08:25 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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