Trees sowed in May bear rotten September fruit

[/ dave /]

For those who didn't follow the URL that M. Blackmore posted, here's one
link that needs to be highlighted.

Not that most weren't already aware  - it's common knowledge of course,
notwithstanding the limited degree to which it seems to "sink in" with
many people - but just for the sheer ironic force of it, and the short
span of time between then and now that adds emphasis to same.

--

/  dave  /


Bush's Faustian Bargain with The Taliban

Published May 22, 2001 in the Los Angeles Times
http://www.robertscheer.com/1_natcolumn/01_columns/052201.htm

"Enslave your girls and women, harbor anti-U.S. terrorists, destroy
every vestige of civilization in your homeland, and the Bush
administration will embrace you. All that matters is that you line up as
an ally in the drug war, the only international cause that this nation
still takes seriously... 

That's the message sent with the recent gift of
$43 million to the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan, the most virulent
anti-American violators of human rights in the world today. The gift,
announced last Thursday by Secretary of State Colin Powell, in addition
to other recent aid, makes the U.S. the main sponsor of the Taliban..."