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You read this, and you're sickened. Despicable.

Any other country in the world, and the entirety of the "mainstream media" would be shut down like a door slamming. We let them bloviate and fabricate, aiding and abetting the vicious enemies of this nation, of our very existence and the future of our progeny. Treason and appeasement: daily occurrences on the Left.

Without the so-called alternative media (becoming the media of the mainstream as every week passes), they'd be getting away with anything and everything, like, for instance, surrendering the USA to the Jihadists in very short order.

You know, i liked the Taliban a lot better when we were funding them and calling them "freedom fighters"

Good one Hash. You stuck your foot in your mouth again. The Taliban were formed in 1994. That was long after we supported the Mujahideen against the Soviet invasion.

You could make a strong case that the UN and NGOs helped the Taliban because the Taliban was dependent on humanitarian aid from them, but what good would that do?

Were they wrong for doing so?

You need to go back to school my friend. Smoking the hash instead of going to Social Studies class is fun, but it left you powerfully ignorant. Sorry.

FreedomNOw, you are wrong. The first major military action of the taleban was in 1994. They existed in the 80's.

Here is quotation from the following source:
Rashid, Ahmed (2000). Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia.

"Though there is no evidence that the CIA directly supported the Taliban or Al Qaeda, some basis for military support of the Taliban was provided when, in the early 1980s, the CIA and the ISI (Pakistan's Interservices Intelligence Agency) provided arms to Afghans resisting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the ISI assisted the process of gathering radical Muslims from around the world to fight against the Soviets. Osama Bin Laden was one of the key players in organizing training camps for the foreign Muslim volunteers. The U.S. poured funds and arms into Afghanistan and "by 1987, 65,000 tons of U.S.-made weapons and ammunition a year were entering the war"...

"The Taliban were based in the Helmand, Kandahar and Uruzgan regions, and were overwhelmingly ethnic Pashtuns and predominantly Durrani Pashtuns. They received training and arms from Pakistan, the U.S. as well as other Middle Eastern countries who had been recruited by the U.S. to thwart the Soviet invasion of this region."

Maybe reading a book would be better than just spouting off some crap you think is right.

that last post was from me, hashfanaticFAN.

So HashfanaticFAN... You claim that the Taliban existed in the 80s, but even the source that you quoted does not state such a thing. 1987 was quoted merely as a benchmark of covert U.S. aid to the Mujahideen (which ended in 1989).

I have seen accounts that stated the Taliban formed in 1993, but didnt begin operations until 1994. So either date works for me. 1994 is a date commonly used by historians to denote the emergence of the Taliban. If you wanted to say that 1993 is a better date, I wouldnt have cared to argue about it and would have conceded. It really doesnt make much of a difference.

Yet stating that the Taliban formed in the 80s is ignorant. Before the Taliban were formed some of their future members fought with the Mujahideen against the Soviets in the eighties, but the truth is that the Taliban did not form until the nineties. Years after the Soviets withdrew.

Come, Mister Taliban, tally me banana. Daylight come and me wan' go home!

You can argue dates all you want. The fact is that the US provided the Taliban, or groups that would later become the Taliban, if you prefer, with weapons and training, just as we did with Saddam Hussein's reighn in Iraq. Live with it!

Hmmm... So dates are unimportant to you? I can see why.

It allows you to cover up for your ill-informed claim that the Taliban were formed in the 80s.

You have to live with your own ignorance.

Now wait a second, hash claims that we supported the taliban, then his "proof" doesn't support that claim, when called on it his response is "you can argue dates all you want"....???

WTF?!?

If I had a brain like a lefty, man I could prove all kind of crap just by saying it and providing proof that shows nothing. I'd prove beyond a shadow of a leftist's doubt that Bush actually fired the second shot that killed JFK, I'd prove that Reagan not only DIDN'T end the cold war but sold nuclear weapons to the Soviets back in the 1940's. If only I had a leftist brain, the things I could prove....If only....