Word: talibanism
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...wasn't called upon to kill or be killed, but tens of thousands of others were. There is no hope for peace on earth as long as war is considered the right thing to do. Each side in a war considers its cause to be right, including the Taliban and al-Qaeda, which call their wars "holy" - another oxymoron. When will people ever learn? Carlos Carrier, Long Beach, California...
...Taliban fighters are representatives of an ousted legal government. They are defenders, not insurgents. There is no way forward unless and until the Taliban are accepted as a real part of Afghan life. Louis Anderson, Sydney...
...same question about Obama to Pakistan's legendary Colonel Imam. The colonel is on French leave from Pakistan's notorious Inter-Services Intelligence agency. But he knows the Taliban - he organized it in the mid-nineties. And that's not to mention that he all but invented the Afghan resistance in the early eighties...
...only shrugged his shoulders at Obama's name. "How do you think the al-Qaeda and the Taliban look at the world today? With or without Obama, the fact is the United States turned Iran into a regional superpower when it invaded Afghanistan and Iraq...
...Colonel Imam knew very well there was no complicity with Iran in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. But it does not change the fact that, when it comes to enemies, al-Qaeda and the Taliban put Iran on a par with the United States. Just as they believe Obama will invade Mecca, they are convinced there is a dark conspiracy against them...