[dheretic]

Islam vindicates every secular humanist who happens to despise organized religion. If only the neo-cons in the Reagan administration had pulled their heads of their asses long enough to examine the logical flaw in the thinking "the enemy of my enemey is my friend." When your new "friend" has your name in the #2 slot on his hit list, you should start looking for a new buddy. We should not have intervened in any way militarily when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. Communism is a far tamer beast than an Islamic fundamentalist state. Our attempts to turn Afghanistan into a Vietnam for the Soviets resulted in 9-11 being turned into Pearl Harbor Part Deux for us.

[spetznaz]

I could not have put it much better myself. Sadly, however, few will agree with you... unless the events of 9-11 have finally made them realize everything is not peaches and cream in the world. Reagan, or more accurately the CIA back then, should have known that the Afghan Mujahadeens and UBL would soon seek another 'foe' once Soviet occupation ended. And the only other global power was the US, thus we would be their next feasible target.