> Please give an example of where this is true (i.e., those who imply that
"the
> enemy of enemy = friend"). Is substantive context your "friend"?
I just did, and have, with Carrol. Yoshie, as Thomas Seay pointed out, has this trick down cold. Plus there's people like you who berate people like me for pointing this out. So it adds up to a tidy, if loud, group.
> Poor? The U.S. gave the Taliban $40 million just months before 9/11.
That's
> about a quarter of the aid that it was giving to the entire continent of
> Africa!
I wasn't talking about economics -- "poor, poor" as in "poor dears" as in "they were so put upon." See?
> As for criminalization, that's what countries do when they go to war with
> other countries. Criminalize the others' people on the basis of
nationality,
> politics, religion.
> Duhh?
Right. The Taliban were just minding their own business with their al-Qaeda guests when the US "criminalized" them out of the imperialist blue. I mean, the Taliban "criminal"? Puh-leeze.
DP