re: #454 Obdicut
From what I’ve seen of Olsonist, he’s no Paulinite of any stripe.
Nor am I, and I think blowback is real, too. I do not think that 9/11 was ‘blowback’, however. I think that it would have occurred regardless of our arming of the Afghani. I think it was a result of extremist religious sentiment.
“blowback” would be our inability to get involved with Iran and support the opposition wholeheartedly, due to our previous meddling.
Is that fair enough?
I don’t think 9/11 had a thing to do with Afghanistan, except that circumstances made it a convenient place for certain people to hang out.