Obama Thanks Muslims For ‘Building The Very Fabric Of Our Nation’
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This hate bull**** gets tiring. Glenn Beck has recently figured out these idiotic hate crusades are just that.
What is Glenn Beck's biggest regret? - CNN.com Video
What is Glenn Beck's biggest regret? - CNN.com Video
I rather enjoyed that show History Bites........
In '78, when a pro-Soviet regime took hold in Afghanistan, the US began investing in an alliance with neighboring Pakistan, where the army led by General Zia, an orthodox Muslim, had recently deposed and murdered Bhutto, the elected prime-minister.
After '79, when Russian troops invaded Afghanistan to shore up the Marxist regime, the proxy warriors of the US were the mujahideen. Aid to the mujahideen — rag-tag groups of Muslim conservatives without money or power — had begun even before the Soviet invasion, and authorized by Carter himself. Reagan, rejecting containment or negotiation, raised the aid twenty fold and went full-steam for a Soviet “roll back,” determined to bleed them white and to hand them their own Vietnam.
With Operation Cyclone, the CIA and Reagan’s assistant secretary of defense, Richard Perle, now began facilitating the real task at hand in Afghanistan: killing Russians. On the White House lawn in 1985, Reagan introduced the bearded leaders of the mujahideen to the US media: “These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America’s founding fathers.”[7] One such mujahideen leader was Osama bin Laden.
3quarksdaily: America, the Cold War, and the Taliban
In '78, when a pro-Soviet regime took hold in Afghanistan, the US began investing in an alliance with neighboring Pakistan, where the army led by General Zia, an orthodox Muslim, had recently deposed and murdered Bhutto, the elected prime-minister.
After '79, when Russian troops invaded Afghanistan to shore up the Marxist regime, the proxy warriors of the US were the mujahideen. Aid to the mujahideen — rag-tag groups of Muslim conservatives without money or power — had begun even before the Soviet invasion, and authorized by Carter himself. Reagan, rejecting containment or negotiation, raised the aid twenty fold and went full-steam for a Soviet “roll back,” determined to bleed them white and to hand them their own Vietnam.
With Operation Cyclone, the CIA and Reagan’s assistant secretary of defense, Richard Perle, now began facilitating the real task at hand in Afghanistan: killing Russians. On the White House lawn in 1985, Reagan introduced the bearded leaders of the mujahideen to the US media: “These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America’s founding fathers.”[7] One such mujahideen leader was Osama bin Laden.
3quarksdaily: America, the Cold War, and the Taliban
The fact is the Muslim world did give America something it gave the world the
number system we use when we count to ten and beyond actually came from
the modern world the abacus is also attributed to them and some say it was
the first attempt at a crude computer.
In fact there are many principals of the Muslim faith that are part of all the others
like the Christians and the Jews and in fact they are part of the fabric of America.
Think of it this way the number system and the abacus were around before America.
Yes its a tempest in a teapot, next...
and tay you are right these gentlemen the Taliban are the embodiment of
the old south that preached slavery and strict moral conduct and keeping
women in their place and so on. Oh sorry the old south was full of
backwoods Christians i forgot
number system we use when we count to ten and beyond actually came from
the modern world the abacus is also attributed to them and some say it was
the first attempt at a crude computer.
In fact there are many principals of the Muslim faith that are part of all the others
like the Christians and the Jews and in fact they are part of the fabric of America.
Think of it this way the number system and the abacus were around before America.
Yes its a tempest in a teapot, next...
and tay you are right these gentlemen the Taliban are the embodiment of
the old south that preached slavery and strict moral conduct and keeping
women in their place and so on. Oh sorry the old south was full of
backwoods Christians i forgot
The Soviets considered them terrorists who were out to undermine the stability and moral fabric of their empire.