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Originally Posted by pbradley
Fucking kill those poppy-growing misogynist fucks!
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You mean men like Gulbuddin Hekmatyar? Whom the USA trained, armed, organised and established a drug growing & smuggling network to fund? When he wasn't fighting Soviets he would spend his free time throwing acid in the faces of women he considered insufficiently modest.
They knew perfectly well who he was, it had been documented going back to his dealings with the ISI through the 1970s, and they worked with him and others like him.
And when they no longer had a need for them, they stood back and let them tear Afghanistan apart.
And for misogyny - well the allies Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and so forth aren't exactly known for being bastions of feminism.
More likely what this is about is ramping up the presence in Central Asia and protection of the natural gas pipeline after the Dubya regimes foolery led to the one through the Caucasus being cut off (hard to believe people think these morons orchestrated 9/11). Gotta re-establish credibility.