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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] That's rather arbitrary in any case. The connection between the Taliban and the terrorist strike is tenuous at best - obviously, the "resources" or "support" they could have provided were not significant to the success of the strike. But they are certainly an easier target than the terrorists themselves (like CaptainMike put it, "advanced decomposition" presents a difficulty in this respect), and they are a good enemy in many respects - no redeeming qualities, not much in the way of resistance or allies, and very, very far away from the rest of the world. But the redeeming of people who in retrospect turn out to be "my enemy's enemy" is not typical of world politics at all. "Once evil, always evil" is far more typical. It does not help Stalinists that they fought the Nazis, or the Nazis that they fought the Communists, or the Communists that they fought the Czarists, or the Czarists that they fought the Prussians, Napoleon and the Turkish. The Northern Alliance is not going to get points of favor just because they happened to fight on the side of the good guys, not if they are back to their pre-Taliban antics. Similarly, I'd think that if UFP were Earth, the ex-Maquis would have to stop being Maquis and would have to denounce their former beliefs in order to get redeemed. (A separate case is the elevation of a former enemy to the status of a respectable opponent. People like Rommel enjoy post-defeat/posthumous respect not so much because they might have opposed evil, but because they fought well and thus cannot have been all bad - else how come we didn't beat them more easily? The Maquis would not seem to fit these criteria at all.) Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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