(you realize only the "wrong on many levels" was mine <s>
Yes, and they harbored AQ, considered them guests and wouldn't extradite. Causus Belli
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>>>No, it was not the Taliban who allowed AQ to set up training camps in Afghanistan.
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>>wrong on many levels
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>>They have never controlled the country, or the government, only some geographic areas.
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>The Taliban controlled 90% of the country in 2000. Of course, few in the international community recognized their 'government.'
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
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Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
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