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This point is arguable, Throbert, in that America paid for much of the weaponry used by the Taliban (or as we used to call them back then - "Afghan freedom fighters") to defeat the Soviets. That in...

Not as badly as your manners =@

I'm just gonna go on my intuitive perceptions here and say that of all the people in this thread, Throbert is probably among the most intellectual, actually...

Very well stated, Throbert...

And Americans like cheap Chinese manufactured goods. That's why they don't want to blame the Chinese. No one even calls the Chinese "communists," although I know a...

With respect to conspiracy theories, I always apply Occam's Razor:

"other things being equal, a simpler explanation is better than a more complex one."

IE, did the US government orchestrate a...

Nope, it isn't news and it isn't remotely surprising.
Unfortunately.

I don't know what to believe either. I get sick of all the conspiracy theories, to be honest. It isn't that some of them don't have merit; to be honest some of them scare the heck out of me. It's...