Are the Communists really in control? Has the American media even been allowed to follow progress in this war enough to know?

Toronto Press

-- Anita (Anita_S3@hotmail.com), December 09, 2001

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From the article: "So, after eight weeks of war, the Taliban is out, the communists are in power in Kabul and the south is in chaos. The war has cost Washington US$60 billion to date. Afghanistan is a bloody mess. And Vladimir Putin is smiling."

You must remember that Vladimir Putin (according to GW Bush) is a good friend and a man "we can do business with."

It is incivil of the article to call the Russians "communists". This is emotion-mongering. Nowadays, Russia has reverted to simple old-fashioned imperialism on a small but satisfying scale in Central Asia.

As long as "we can do business with" them, then it is not our place to criticize them for making the odd buck on the side. That's just business, you know. No worse than doing business in China, if you get my drift. They even still call themselves communists - although no one can figure out why.

-- Little Nipper (canis@minor.net), December 09, 2001.

So, after eight weeks of war, the Taliban is out, the communists are in power in Kabul and the south is in chaos. The war has cost Washington US$60 billion to date. Afghanistan is a bloody mess. And Vladimir Putin is smiling.

.........and Al Qaeda, who savagely attacked America, no is severely disabled and no longer has a refuge in Afghanistan from which to launch terror on the West. Or maybe that refuge is now in Toronto?

-- (lars@indy.net), December 09, 2001.

,,,,,,,,now is severely disabled......

-- (lars@indy.net), December 09, 2001.

We are going to bomb Toronto?

-- Oxy (Oxsys@aol.com), December 09, 2001.

LN, you'd rather we not be able to call Russia our friend and do business with them?

-- Maria (maria9470@lycos.com), December 10, 2001.

Maria, no.

-- Little Nipper (canis@minor.net), December 10, 2001.