saleem did have a small amount of accuracy, I recall that not long before the Taliban decided to shell Buddhist shrines there was a deal in the works for the US to pay them, as the government of Afghanistan, for destroying/ prohibiting the culture of poppies.

I don't think anyone ever termed them "freedom fighters" and for the rest of his / her post, saleem was as accurate as, say, The O'Reilly Factor.

goatfell, you're making an error common to a lot of folks in these forums. It isn't about you. It's about what you say. So say something relevant already. You can start a thread about yourself, a lot of folks do that, too.