Certain websites are wetting themselves at the startling Wikileak that there are dealings across the long land border between Afghanistan and Iran. "See! See!" they are shrieking. Well, February saw the capture of Abdulmalik Rigi, the leader of Jundullah, who was en route to a meeting about the setting up of a British and American-backed base as near as possible to Afghanistan's border with Iran.
As in Bosnia, as in Kosovo, as in Chechnya, as in Xinjiang, and as for all practical purposes in Iraq, nothing could be further from the truth than that neoconservatism, still running the State Department in the person of one of the Saudis' favourite hired help, is in any sense opposed to the most viciously violent manifestations of the most hardline reactions within Sunnism. Not least including the one that visits horrific terror, and would visit far more, on Iran.
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Good points. It is also worth mentioning that at one time the Israelis had a favorable stance towards the Taliban because of the Taliban's rocky relations with the Iran.
ReplyDeleteThose who devote their time to seeking out Lost Tribes of Israel, in order to airlift them in to maintain a non-Arab majority, now claim that one such is the Pashtun, who may be many things, but who are certainly not Arabs.
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