Comments on: Charlie Wilson’s Warlords http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/02/24/charlie-wilson%e2%80%99s-warlords/ Conservative and Libertarian Intellectual Philosophy and Politics Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:00:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Patrick Mulligan http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/02/24/charlie-wilson%e2%80%99s-warlords/comment-page-1/#comment-70982 Patrick Mulligan Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:20:06 +0000 http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/02/24/charlie-wilson%e2%80%99s-warlords/#comment-70982 "On 9/11, this training came back to bite the United States, because many of the hijackers were veterans of the Afghan War. Also, the Mujahideen’s victory over an occupying Soviet superpower emboldened the Islamists to attempt to defeat on its home turf the other superpower that was occupying and intervening in Muslim lands (the U.S. has had ground troops in the Persian Gulf since the end of the first Gulf War, and heavily supports autocratic and corrupt Arab governments and Israel). " So, Afghani fighters brought their training to America in 2001 to eradicate the American occupation of "their" land, in another country, that didn't take place until 1991? Spot on analysis, as always. That also explains the attacks on the UK, Saudi Arabia and the PRC, who all contributed nearly as much, just as much, or more as the United States in money and equipment to the Mujahideen. I can certainly understand their frustration. I know I've recently been contemplating blowing up some buildings in France because of French occupation of American lands prior to the coast-to-coast expansion of American territory. Those damn foreign interlopers! “On 9/11, this training came back to bite the United States, because many of the hijackers were veterans of the Afghan War. Also, the Mujahideen’s victory over an occupying Soviet superpower emboldened the Islamists to attempt to defeat on its home turf the other superpower that was occupying and intervening in Muslim lands (the U.S. has had ground troops in the Persian Gulf since the end of the first Gulf War, and heavily supports autocratic and corrupt Arab governments and Israel). ”

So, Afghani fighters brought their training to America in 2001 to eradicate the American occupation of “their” land, in another country, that didn’t take place until 1991? Spot on analysis, as always. That also explains the attacks on the UK, Saudi Arabia and the PRC, who all contributed nearly as much, just as much, or more as the United States in money and equipment to the Mujahideen. I can certainly understand their frustration. I know I’ve recently been contemplating blowing up some buildings in France because of French occupation of American lands prior to the coast-to-coast expansion of American territory. Those damn foreign interlopers!

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