[lbo-talk] another DH loves BHO in Cairo
ravi
ravi at platosbeard.org
Sun Jun 7 18:14:20 PDT 2009
On Jun 7, 2009, at 7:52 PM, Marv Gandall wrote:
> I hold no brief for the Taliban, Chris, but I've seen no evidence that
> they're an "imperialistic creed" with "a huge infrastructure devoted
> to
> preparing cadres to go abroad to kill the infidel". Can you produce
> any?
> They don't have the resources. They're drawn from impoverished
> Pashtun hill
> tribes who rebelled against the Soviet- and later Western-supported
> central
> government in Kabul.
My memory is fuzzy, but wasn't the Taliban cultivated by the ISI in
part to foment trouble in Kashmir?
--ravi
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