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We didn't bankroll Bin Laden after all!
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jay the Obscure: [QB] Se�or Snay, that theory will never hold up in court. Any money I give to a homeless person could likely make me an accessory to a drug buy. I'm not guilty of anything because he didn't buy a Big Mac instead of rock cocaine. On an interpersonal and private level the A to B causing C analogy just doesn't work in this case. However, on a geo-political scale, when country A gives country B money, specifically in the case of Pakistan during the Afghanistan conflict, only a fool denies we gave them the money to fight a proxy war. Sure, Pakistan maybe used a certain percentage of the money to buy food, beat down segments of the population and to beautify the presidential palace, but it also went buy weapons. What amount? Who knows. But what is clear is that we were funding Mr. Bin Laden and his ilk through any number of channels during the Afghanistan conflict. Does that make us responsible? In part, yes. We also gave money to the Taliban to curtail the Afghanistan drug trade. Goodness knows what they did with that. This kind of geo-political responsibility question also comes into play policy wise when one talks about the Arab conflict with Isreal. The support we give Isreal is clearly being used to fund the military. The radicals in the international community place a great deal of blame on the United States for the actions of Isreal. Whether it's the funding of dictators who equip death squads to kill or giving money to states who use it for defense or waging a proxy war with Turkmenistan, on a geo-political level, we bear some responsibility. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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