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Originally Posted by Bodyhammer86
To add on to Mojo's last paragraph, most of the mujahadeen factions that we supported ended up being fighters for the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, and hell, they even fought under the same name during the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.
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Thanks to you and Mojo for posting the responses I would otherwise have done.
I heard a service member speak yesterday. He's been to Iraq twice.
He was very upbeat about how things are going over there, to the point of saying he often wonders what country the media are reporting on, since the news is invariably made out to be bad.
He says we'll have accomplished a very important goal when the media over there stop referring to mujahadin (sp?) and begin calling them some other Arabic word that start with an "M" and sounds similar.
It means "evildoers."
It's going to take awhile, since for about two generations, speaking out against the entrenched powers over there had some very negative consequences.