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His anti-war writing goes way back to the late 1960's/early 1970's. I think he was one of the writers for one of the original LW radical magazines called Ramparts.
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Robert Scheer
CREATORS SYNDICATE
05.23.01
Bush's Faustian deal with the Taliban
Enslave your girls and women, harbor anti-U.S. terrorists, destroy every vestige of civilization in your homeland, and the Bush administration will embrace you. All that matters is that you line up as an ally in the drug war, the only international cause that this nation still takes seriously.
That's the message sent with the recent gift of $43 million to Afghanistan, to be distributed by the an arm of the United Nations. The Taliban, who rule Afghanistan with an iron fist and will almost certainly be able to control the distribution of the aid to their political advantage, are the most virulent anti-American violators of human rights in the world today. The gift, announced last Thursday by Secretary of State Colin Powell, in addition to other recent aid, makes the U.S. a major backdoor sponsor of the Taliban and rewards that "rogue regime" for declaring that opium growing is against the will of God. So, too, by the Taliban's estimation, are most human activities, but it's the ban on drugs that catches this administration's attention.
Never mind that Osama bin Laden still operates the leading anti-American terror operation from his base in Afghanistan, from which, among other crimes, he launched two bloody attacks on American embassies in Africa in 1998.
Sadly, the Bush administration is cozying up to the Taliban regime at a time when the United Nations, at U.S. insistence, imposes sanctions on Afghanistan because the Kabul government will not turn over Bin Laden.
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