RE: [iwar] [fc:Arab.world.poverty.--.whose.fault?]

From: Ross Stapleton-Gray (amicus@well.com)
Date: 2001-10-26 22:17:49


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Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 22:17:49 -0700
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Subject: RE: [iwar] [fc:Arab.world.poverty.--.whose.fault?]
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At 10:21 PM 10/26/01 -0700, e.r. wrote:
>Whose fault is the peoples suffering? The bad guys can start taking
>numbers.  We just came on the scene after 11 Sept...

Huh?  The situation in Afghanistan is certainly in part due to our past 
involvement, for good or ill; the U.S., with Pakistan as a channel, pumped 
resources into Afghanistan to fight the USSR in one of the last proxy wars 
of the Cold War.

One might speculate what would have happened had the U.S. not promoted the 
Mujaheddin as insurgents against the Soviets... might Afghanistan have been 
more like Mongolia, i.e., loosely in the Soviet sphere of influence, then 
cut loose when the Soviet empire fell apart?  What we've now got, to some 
extent, are chickens coming home to roost.

Ross



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