But Afghanistan was stil recieving aid from us ONE YEAR before the 9/11 attacks. We were fully aware of their politics and feelings towards western society and thinking towards us and they were suspected of harboring al queda.

We are fully aware of the Saudi's thoughts on women and western society and that was clearly amplified when eight of their citizens , funded by other (at least one) Saudis hopped on our airplanes and crashed them into our buildings filled with Americans. Yet , we continue to have diplomatic and financial relationships with them.

Pakistan is a military dictatorship with the same extremest muslum undercurrent as Afghanistan that is still happens to be in the midst of a cold war type nuclear showdown with India , yet we "needed" their support in our war against Afghanistan so we gave them lots of money and opened diplomatic ties.

What weren't we aware of when we did that? So , I ask again ; How long before that comes back to bite us on the ass?
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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure. - Vice President James Danforth "Dan" Quayle