And it was successive U.S. administrations that gave money to both bin Laden and the Taliban. In early 2005 Karzai criticized the U.S. having helped the Taliban to take control in Afghanistan.
With a month after the Saudi suicide bombers 9/11 attack, Bush invaded all Afghanistan, claiming a right to arrest a bin Laden. But bin Laden had come to Afghanistan to fight the Russians, who were drawn into Afghanistan to defend the socialist Kabul government against attack by the Carter/Brzezinski covert CIA funded, armed and trained fanatical extremist terrorist hill tribes.
The Taliban government, having no extradition treaty with the U.S. had refused to turn over to an America government that refused to even show some evidence. The Bush doctrine that the friend of American enemies can be targeted as well continues under Commander Obama, but today we only rarely hear about al Qaeda, and bin Laden has hardly ever been discussed for many years. It almost seems America needs bin Laden as an excuse. Its the Taliban that is now the prime enemy, yet everyone knows the Taliban is filled with fighters against the occupation by foreigners.
Would Americans fighting invaders and occupiers of American be called insurgents?
Incidentally, not one Afghani has ever invaded or attacked America, Europe, Australia or anywhere else. The same cannot be said of Americans.
The original name of the Afghan invasion was "Operation Infinite Justice" The larger world war on terror became "Operation Enduring Freedom". Freedom enduring where is not clear.
And what freedom for anyone have these eight years of U.S. occupation war on Afghanis brought? No freedom, but lots of death, maiming, destruction, homelessness, hunger, misery and millions of refugees.
Click on these almost unbearable-to-watch six segments of Robert Greenwald's film Rethink Afghanistan and once again as during Vietnam and Iraq, be ashamed and feel miserable to be an American whose government is murdering and maiming brave Afghanis fighting the invasion and occupation of their land. Killing Afghani in their own country, always under the pretext of fighting the phantom forces of al Qaeda. And understand how foolish and mortally dangerous it is to make more and more anguished, desperate and possibly vengeful deadly enemies in a world where awesomely destructive technology is increasingly available and relatively impossible to protect against.
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