re: #699 drcordell

Some of the warlords the US supported became our allies after 9-11, such as the Northern Alliance, and Hamid Karzai. Some, such as Gulbadin Hekmater (sp?) supported the Taliban. It is a distortion and an exaggeration to say the Taliban & AQ were are fighting now were created by the US during the Russian war.

Are you arguing the US should not have supported anybody during the Russian invasion, and let the USSR swallow Afghanistan, or that the US should have responded with an invasion of her own troops back then? Do you have an alternative strategy the US should have pursued then?