http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Tue, 25 Dec 2007 10:04:58 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/12/24/112041.php#comment-682648 I was talking in looser terms. I know that the Taliban actually formed from the thousands of refugees displaced into Pakistan. But the Taliban wouldn't have risen to power so quickly if it weren't in the wake of the war leaving the entire country in ruins and warlords freely reigning with the mass firearms provided to them. 682648@blogcritics.org Tue, 25 Dec 2007 10:04:58 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/12/24/112041.php#comment-682638 If you believe that the resistance fighters of the 1980s became the Taliban of the 1990s, you show little appreciation of the complex course of Afghan history in the last thirty years. 682638@blogcritics.org Tue, 25 Dec 2007 07:33:41 EST