To All the Sharp Dressed Soldiers Shipping Out

Op Ed News by Eileen Fleming | Jul. 27, 2009 (Editorial)

"You can't understand the Taliban without knowing about America's covert operations in the region in the 1980s. President Ronald Reagan's administration, mainly through the CIA, used the Pakistani Intelligence services to fund, arm, and train Afghan and foreign Islamist jihadis to defeat the Soviet army in Afghanistan. Pakistan subsequently used "channels built with U.S. money" to install in Afghanistan a friendly government -- the Taliban.

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by eileen fleming - Jul. 27, 2009

This article is quality journalism as defined in expressing our common humanity as it challenges conventional wisdom. I apologize for linking to the second page, but that is where the quote -and more -from Ann Jones, humanitarian aid worker and author of "Kabul in Winter" can be read.

"If i can't dance its not my revolution."-Emma Goldman... I recently flew to Atlanta to meet up with an old friend from my misspent youth and to see ZZ Top open for Aerosmith... The next day, I crossed paths with many sharp dressed tan/brown/grey camo covered young men all shipping out after only two weeks of R and R... Eileen Fleming, A Feature Correspondent for The Palestine Telegraph and Arabisto Founder of www.wearewideawake.org/ Author of "Keep Hope Alive" and "Memoirs of a Nice Irish American 'Girl's' Life in Occupied Territory" Producer "30 Minutes with Vanunu" and "13 Minutes with Vanunu"

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