'harboring the prime suspects to an act of mass-murder and refused to hand them over'For about a week or something before war was declared.
'The very nature of their regime was repugnant enough to depose it with military force, if that alone isn't reason enough'
That would be the regime essentially put in place by the States yeah? Is that the one you mean?
Bin Laden was a great excuse for an action in Afghanistan, it'd been brewing for some time.
www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/jir/jir010315_1_n.shtml
('The very nature of their regime was repugnant enough to depose it with military force, if that alone isn't reason enough'
That would be the regime essentially put in place by the States yeah? Is that the one you mean?
Bin Laden was a great excuse for an action in Afghanistan, it'd been brewing for some time.
www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/jir/jir010315_1_n.shtml
slight yoinks!,
Fri 17 Oct 2008, 21:46,
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That regime came about because of the cold war, something I suspect a lot of you are to young to have been thereit wasn't nice living day in day out with the acute threat of nuclear armageddon; but then on I think it get's a little more complicated than pasted links from websites I can't be arsed to click on that might support your view of things
( Jahled Three shades of black,
Fri 17 Oct 2008, 21:58,
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I may not be as young as you think old man.It did not come about because of the cold war, that's a complete cop-out. The US funded and supported the Taliban as a proxy against Russia, and that's why they were in power.
The link is about the fact that there was already a concerted, international as it happens, effort against the Taliban before Sep 11. Russia, India, Iran(!) and the US were supporting the northern alliance against the Taliban. Sep 11 gave certain people in the US the excuse they'd wanted for some time to step in and make some changes they'd been having to pussy foot around up to that point.
Incidentally you're a patronising twat.
(The link is about the fact that there was already a concerted, international as it happens, effort against the Taliban before Sep 11. Russia, India, Iran(!) and the US were supporting the northern alliance against the Taliban. Sep 11 gave certain people in the US the excuse they'd wanted for some time to step in and make some changes they'd been having to pussy foot around up to that point.
Incidentally you're a patronising twat.
slight yoinks!,
Fri 17 Oct 2008, 22:15,
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