[lbo-talk] The Afghan War as a "Lost Leader"

[Charles Brown]

Looking at it longer term, the Taliban probably never would have come to
power if U.S. imperialism had not armed and organized the Afghan
Contras-Counterrevolutionaries. Can you count out another terroristic group
coming to power after this U.S. intervention/quick-fix ?

Charles

Chris Doss 

See, I think you're illustrating my point. You're
looking at Afghanistan insofar as it relates to the
US, and thereby missing that the Taliban were
aggressively promoting war everywhere from the North
Caucasus to Northern Iran to Western China. When the
US (and it was actually a US-Russia operation BTW)
eliminated the Talibs from power, they headed off a
military conflagration that was threatening the entire
area. This BTW is why Afghanistan's neighbors
supported and continue to support the US morally and
materially, not because of sillinesses like "Moscow
allowed US troops in the 'stans in exchange for
silence on Chechnya."

--- Mycos <mycos at shaw.ca
<http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk> > wrote:


> 
> I'm at a loss as to why you would think that
> speaking of an
> American-led war against groups who oppose US
> foreign policy,
> something both sides themselves readily admit to, is
> an example of
> ethnocentrism.  I mean, they are at the center of
> it, so...???
> 
> Gary --- Canadian btw
> -- 
>