White House: Taliban not terrorists

[wjtwet]

Originally Posted by EinsteinsGhost

Actually, Reagan called them: "Afghan Resistance Army".

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"These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America's Founding Fathers" - Pres Ronald Reagan, 1985

They were called "Terrorists" in India at the time (and today).

No question in the Reagan years we helped the Taliban ,we were not now and I like to stay in the present

[mohawkx]

Originally Posted by wjtwet

No question in the Reagan years we helped the Taliban ,we were not now and I like to stay in the present

If you like to stay in the present, why are you bringing up an obscure executive order signed by president Bush in February, 2002, a couple weeks before we invaded another sovereign nation? That's 13 years ago.

Here and now............the Taliban are not a terrorist organization. If they were, we'd still have 80 thousand troops over there hunting them down. They are a local insurgency that consider the puppet government of Afghanistan the US created to be their enemy.

[wjtwet]

Originally Posted by mohawkx

If you like to stay in the present, why are you bringing up an obscure executive order signed by president Bush in February, 2002, a couple weeks before we invaded another sovereign nation? That's 13 years ago.

Here and now............the Taliban are not a terrorist organization. If they were, we'd still have 80 thousand troops over there hunting them down. They are a local insurgency that consider the puppet government of Afghanistan the US created to be their enemy.

The article given is. 2014 close enough to the present for me