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Fifty2One

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You missed this bit in Wikipedia about the British SAS...

Some soldiers (officially former members of the Regiment) fought in the Vietnam War training US Combat Tracker Teams 1965-1971 and helped the Mujahideen in Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation. There was also official SAS training of Mujahideen in Scotland in the 1980s, with particular emphasis on shooting down Soviet-made helicopters with American-made FIM-92 Stinger, man-portable surface-to-air missiles.

So that is a GREAT plan - teach then how to fight, show them around your country, piss them off, go to war with them and then give them money.

Actually it was the Mujahideen financed by the CIA, and also by Saudi Arabia, Pakistan under Zia-ul-Haq, Iran, the People's Republic of China and several Western European countries. Pakistan's secret service, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), was used as an intermediary for most of these activities to disguise the sources of support for the resistance.
 

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What puzzles me is that the "western world" spends millions on searching for heroin at airports etc. About 80% comes from Afghanistan.
The heroin poppies are growing in Afghanistan in big fields of massive size. Why don't we (the west) use something like napalm to destroy the heroin at source?

Col

Where would the money be in that? :rolleyes: You don't think both of our governments are making a massive amount of money in the drug market, either through shady dealing or just catching and obtaining the drugs, then dealing them back on the streets? The drug market is one of the largest in the world, it would be foolish for them not to be involved in some way.
 

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Which begs the question, why the hell are we there in the first place. More Bush/Bliars' lies


Because the people that destroyed the World Trade Centre were based there!! Do you want you bring them to justice or not?????

Then again, if the world actually delivered all those billions they were going to donate to the Afghanistan reconstruction in the first place, the law abiding Afghani's would be living in luxury and the Taliban would be deserting in droves.

But as usual, the world promises much and delivers little - sounds a bit like :
Climate change
Bank reforms
Financial regulations
etc etc etc
 

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The only way to take the misery out of human misery is to take the humans out first.

We are our own worst enemy. The late Walt Kelly summed it up so perfectly when he had Pogo Possum say "We have met the enemy - and he is us."
 

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