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Originally posted by jaguar
on arab life, clearly the US thinks american life is far ore valuable that the lives of arabs. (unfair i know but true)
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I'd expect the US govt to value US lives over the lives of foreigners; US lives are to some degree the US govt's job to protect. Nothing wrong with that.
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I agree entirely that taliban should be removed, and removed fast but the ROOT cause has always been outside interference.
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And what outside interference would that be? The Taliban took Kabul in 1996. The Soviet Union had been gone since 1989, and with it American backing for anti-Soviet forces. No, the Taliban is a strictly local phenomenon.
Just because Bin Laden and the Taliban blame America for the troubles of the Islamic people doesn't mean there's a whit of truth to their claims. America is just a convenient scapegoat. Neither the USs support for Israel nor the presence of US troops in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait harms anyone in Afghanistan.