March 21st, 2003, 01:43 PM
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Re: [OT] Another heated discussion about the Iraq siutation, war and politics.
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Originally posted by Mephisto:
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Originally posted by Thermodyne:
The US is not overly picky about who we sell to, but we do not supply advanced weapons to despots.
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I wonder who sold the Stinger Ground to Air missile system to the Taliban against the Soviets...
Technically we didn't supply anything to the Taliban. They pretty much hated us from the start. We did supply a lot of weapons to the Mujahadeen and I'm sure many of them were still laying around when the Taliban came to power. And certainly a lot of former Mujahdeen members joined the Taliban and took their US supplied weapons with them. That's the thing about supplying weapons to your allies. Sometimes they don't stay your allies.
Geoschmo
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