Is the Taliban America's Frankenstein?

[Luke Weiger]

> If such (= "the problem in Afghanistan has been not enough
> imperialism") is your view, you might as well advocate incorporating
> Afghanistan as the 51st member state of the United States.  If "a
> true puppet" of the U.S. is better than the Northern Alliance, surely
> statehood is better than "a true puppet."
>
> Yoshie

Great.  I'm all for a more inclusive union, but I rather doubt others are.
Even better would be the incorporation of Afghanistan into the EU regardless
of the fact that it's on a different continent.  How very unfortunate that
such idle hopes are doomed to be consigned to the historic dustbin of
speculations that never came to anything.

-- Luke