oh yeah, that's right.
islamic fundamentalism bad, west good.
this article sums it up nicely:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists...579174,00.html
For the first year of Taliban rule, US policy towards the regime appears to have been determined principally by Unocal's interests. In 1997 a US diplomat told Rashid "the Taliban will probably develop like the Saudis did. There will be Aramco [the former US oil consortium in Saudi Arabia] pipelines, an emir, no parliament and lots of Sharia law. We can live with that." US policy began to change only when feminists and greens started campaigning against both Unocal's plans and the government's covert backing for Kabul.
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We have argued on these pages about whether terrorism is likely to be deterred or encouraged by the invasion of Afghanistan, or whether the plight of the starving there will be relieved or exacerbated by attempts to destroy the Taliban. But neither of these considerations describes the full scope and purpose of this war. As John Flynn wrote in 1944: "The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rapine and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission, a destiny imposed by the Deity to regenerate our victims while incidentally capturing their markets, to civilise savage and senile and paranoid peoples while blundering accidentally into their oil wells." I believe that the US government is genuine in its attempt to stamp out terrorism by military force in Afghanistan, however misguided that may be. But we would be naïve to believe that this is all it is doing.
but... if the US is the
shining light against islamic terror (TM) why did they create the taliban in the first place?
why was the US the leading financial supporter in foreign aid to afghanistan in 2000 and 2001?
open your eyes, our presence in afghanistan is to clean up america's mess, in which we are more than complicit.
only the naive and criminally stupid could possibly believe that stamping out 'islamic terror' is the reason that we're there, i mean, we set the taliban up in their sick little kingdom, period.