> the Taliban are not the Soviet Union.<div><br></div><div>Of course not. And they are not China as well. We know that, what's your point?</div><div><br></div><div>Oh, I see: <div><br></div><div>> They and their friends are only a threat to the west insofar as certain interest groups over here need an enemy to point the Two Minute Hate at. </div>
<div><br></div><div>They are not a real power at all? Just an imaginary foe?</div><div><br></div><div>> I'll grant you they're hateful and unattractive, but a threat? Not really.</div></div><div><br></div><div>
Your grants worth nothing to those, who were already killed by them.</div><div><br></div><div>P.S.</div><div><br></div><div>It would be funny, if it was not grotesque. Your claims, of course.</div>