WinBySurrender said:
They invited bin Laden to set up shop in Afghanistan.
Wrong
They gave him money from their opium profits to finance the 9/11 attacks.
Wrong
Such flow of money as there has been us the other way. The Taliban were running a whole county on next to nothing. They brought opium production to the lowest it's been.
Mullah Omah issued many declarations that foreign nations should not be attacked from Afghan soil - but he had no means of enforcing that on Al-Qaeda
He would almost certainly have done what he could to facilitate an arrest of Bin Laden if a trial in an Islamic country under Islamic law had been on offer.
They spent the rest of that money
The tiny budget they had was spent on the civil war, and the rest more effectively than anybody else has spent money in that country on bringing security, building infrastructure, ....
imprisoning their own people under a hardline Sha'ria law that had not one inch of give in it, with punishment automatically being the maximum allowable.
Yes, they've used sharia as their law, but no - they have not interpreted it in the hardest possible way. as one informed commentator notes, there have probably been more judicial executions in Texas than there were under the Taliban government. And those often happened because the victim's family insisted on execution, as is the family's right under that law.
You're smoking some good stuff if you think those turban-charged airheads weren't in control of things over there.
The us, with all its might couldn't control bin laden. Neither could Saudi with all it's money and religious influence. There's no way the Taliban could.
Oh, puh-leeze! I can't believe you actually posted that drivel.Again, drivel. Kandahar was liberated with a combination of British Special Forces, US air power and armed Afghani resistance fighters.
Stop buying into all the US propoganda and western media spin. Kandahar is a disaster precisely because hardly any locals support NATO presence dispite the efforts to win hearts and minds.
Read something besides left-wing blogs occasionally, please. "Zero corruption"??? Is that what you call financing terror and tyranny with opium money?
They've never had much opium money. They did have a civil war to finance. The rest of what money they had was spent enormously efficiently rebuilding the country.
How much do you think opium brings in in a day? Trust me, its nearly as much as the US spends on the war.
'fraud not. You've been sold a lot of spin.
I'd like a straight answer from you on this: Why are you apologizing for a terrrorist organization? Are you that severely brain-washed by the left that you think what you're spouting is the truth??
I've read more than western spin and government propaganda. I've been to NWFP and seen the Pastun and Chitrali cultures first hand, ive read up on the history that brought the Taliban Into existsnce, I've done some critical thinking,...
I've made some effort to understand them instead of demonizjng them first and the looking for ways of supporting that.
