ext_36450 ([identity profile] underlankers.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] talkpolitics 2010-04-06 11:12 am (UTC)

Sigh......you miss the point.

Osama bin Laden was our mess. No Soviet war in Afghanistan, no Osama bin Laden ordering planes slammed through buildings. The USSR wrecked the place first, but in giving our technology to him we laid the entire seed of what came when we put troops on Saudi soil.

And no, that's not what I'm saying. What I *am* saying is that the history of war in Afghanistan did not emerge in 2001 like Athena from the head of Zeus. Brezhnev sowed the seed Obama now tends.

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