To: commieprof
"When four percent of the world's population controls more than 60% of the world's wealth, when the nation states that harbor the strongest enterprises defend those interests with force, when U.S. foreign policy and economic policy are designed to drive countries into unsalvageable debt or rubble,"
You need to learn the concept of "comparative advantage". You can learn this in any Freshman economics book.
To: Texas_Longhorn
Good point about the Mujahedin--Trying to cram a long history into a short paragraph and cutting corners. Yes, it was the Mujahedin, forerunners of AlQuaeda, not the Taliban, who garned the support of the U.S. during the Cold War.
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