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The WSJ has a brief piece on a training camp in Pakistan.
There's a long line? A waiting list to join the Taleban?
One young man said he was a student at a business school in Peshawar and recently completed his 40 days of fighter training. He said he is waiting to join the war in Afghanistan. "There is a long queue, but I hope my turn would come soon," he said.
There's a long line? A waiting list to join the Taleban?
posted by mikevotes at
8:07 AM
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-epm, at 11:16 AM
What isn't made clear from the snippet, is this young man is itching to join the war in Afghanistan ON THE SIDE OF THE TALIBAN.
All our warring has done nothing... or at lest very little. A mere lid on a pressure cooker. The illusion of progress, but really only an iron veil hiding an unbroken and rising tide of fundamentalist Islamic frustration, resentment and violence.
What has changed in the past 8 years for fundamentalist Islamists to have changed their opinion of us? To not want to act out violently against us? To have reduced the number of terrorists-in-waiting?
I guess McCain's answer would be that we simply haven't killed enough of them to have won them over... or cleansed the world of them. More wars. That's the ticket!
(Kinda got wound up there... sorry.)
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-epm, at 11:24 AM
I over cut it, eh?
I changed the post to make it a little clearer.
I think the intersting thing today is the meeting between the Pakistani PM and Bush admin officials.
We'll have to wait and see if the language changes coming out of that meeting.
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mikevotes, at 11:47 AM
I can remembering wanting to join the IRA when I was a teenager. Probably about the same mentality. No one likes to see their brothers and sisters invaded and slaughtered for empire.
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matt, at 12:05 PM
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