Robert Scheer, May 22, 2001, Bush's Faustian Deal With the Taliban: "Enslave your girls and women, harbor anti-U.S. terrorists, destroy every vestige of civilization in your homeland, and the Bush administration will embrace you. All that matters is that you line up as an ally in the drug war, the only international cause that this nation still takes seriously. That's the message sent with the recent gift of $43 million to the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan, the most virulent anti-American violators of human rights in the world today. The gift, announced last Thursday by Secretary of State Colin Powell, in addition to other recent aid, makes the U.S. the main sponsor of the Taliban and rewards that 'rogue regime' for declaring that opium growing is against the will of God. So, too, by the Taliban's estimation, are most human activities, but it's the ban on drugs that catches this administration's attention."
[Articles continue at link. Emphasis added. Apologies to regular AmSam readers who have seen the May 22, 2001 post before. I just don't get tired of reminding the world that George W. Bush was the main sponsor of the Taliban a few months before 9/11.]
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