Posted by: Angus Cunningham
04/07/2008, 21:37:01
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The Afghanis I know best are Canadian citizens. They tell me that the Afghani economy before the Soviet invasion was a flourishing agricultural one with wide and even affectionate allegiance to the Afghani King. From what I hear the country was much more prosperous than now, much less polarized, and it was helpful to Afghanis that a pre-9/11 Osama bin Laden got CIA financing to make sufficient trouble for the Soviets to induce them to withdraw. Thus Soviet violence begat CIA and al Quaeda inspired violence. Does anyone have any data/facts to dispute that? If not, the conclusion is inescapable: the principle that violence begets violence is intact, being irrefutable within this Homer-initiated Big Buddha thread by the Afghani experience between the Soviet invasion and the eve of 9/11. But will DWA or Homer or Crossbowman or Remi or another TTer emerge with a more truth-filled verity than "violence begets violence" from dissection of the Afghani experience post 9/11? what's this
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