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Originally posted by socalpunX:

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?
First of all Socal.... 15 of the 9/11 terrorists were Saudi's. Not eight.

Regarding Pakistan... yeah it is a totally fucked up country. Basically our support for that country is really support for one man.. Gen. Musharraf. He doesn't even control the whole of his own country. I wouldn't really put him in the dictator category. He took control of the country in a coup to keep control away from the radical Islamist factions. He is hanging on by a thread. The U.S. military does have a plan to move in and take control of their nuclear weapons if anything were to happen to Musharraf or if those weapons somehow became compromised.

We also never gave weapons to all the countries you mentioned in one of your previous quotes. We stopped supporting Iran many years ago. At one time they were an ally. That was before Islamic fundamentalism spread throughout the Islamic world. The countries in the Middle East don't need American weapons. They can get them from China, Russia and many European countries. They don't need us to supply them.

You forgot to mention Pakistans biggest benefactor as far as nuclear technology and weapons... CHINA.

China is ramping up their weapons and misslile technology and soon it will be equivalent to ours. How did they get that technology? I think you know. China is selling and exporting this technology to all of our enemies. You may be surprised to know that they are also helping Brazil become a nuclear power. The leader of Brazil is a communist who hates the U.S. Also who controls both the eastern and western access to the Panama Canal? A front company for the People's Liberation Army...China.

We are surrounded by enemies, but who is our biggest enemy in the world today... it is China. They are arming the world and exercising influence in untold countries.... and no one in our country even talks about this. It has to make you wonder.