Explosion wounds 100 people in market in Mazar-e-Sharif

AP ^ | 12-20-01

[MadEagle]

I took his handle to read "Private Eye," as in detective. Never heard of a Corporal eye. : )

[Faraday]

The President's executive order to the CIA gives our crews the power to take this kind of action, according to the Bob Woodward article in the Washington Post. The article suggests that the story originated near Cheney or Rice.

[PrivateI]

And you would be right. But I would also like to make corporal. Been a lurker for a year and a half. I guess you might say Im a little cautious. :)

[Stavka2]

You are, as I've said before, an idiot. I don't glout at Americans getting killed, but then again, the likes of you believes that anybody who fails to agree with them is a Marxist. I'm doing the I told you so about this being over, like what CNN, FOX and everyone else wants to believe. But I'm sure this is to high and difficult of a concept for your brain to figure out...Good luck learning reading comprehension.

[Stavka2]

That's the problem, even during the Soviet time period, there was a lot of support for the federal Afghan government, if not out of love for the Socialists (who could blame them for a lack of love) out of fear for what would follow with the Soviet withdrawl. (the endless civil war) If you talk to the vets and read the books, it is obvious that much of the public lived in fear...this wasn't Vietnam where the public of S. Vietnam knew (more or less) what they faced when the S. Vietnamese governments collapsed and the US left. They knew they faced life under the N. Vietnamese, and while this might not have been all that fun at least it was a form of stability. All the Afghans faced when the Soviets withdrew and the Federal government collapsed is anarchy.

The issue here is that while you are right about lack of support, you are not totally correct. A substantial enough percentage does support these actions, even if it is 1%. Remember, in Russia, the first Duma only had 2 members of the Soviet Revolutionaries...15 years later they were running the nation as the Bolshaviks.