lol this is getting fun
Al Qeada used to be backed by the US government when the soviet union attacked afganistan. when their job was done the US named them terrorist.
if it wasn't for Al Qeada the Soviet Union would have taken over the stratigical point of afganistan, then war with America would be almost unperventable.
Al Qaeda was never backed by the U.S...the Taliban was at one point before they got all radical, because they wanted to counteract soviet control of Afghanistan
However, the US soon withdrew that support once they heard about the atrocities that the Taliban were comitting (mass executions at half time during soccer games, etc)
I'm not a supporter of the Taliban nor do I give a fuck. But tell me what about the Atrocities Israel has been committing over the past 6-7 decades? I never see you mention this, in fact you support it. Get the fuck out of here, I hate hypocrites.
Yeah you can execute people in mass numbers at half time, the grounds keeps will drain the field of blood before the teams come back on to resume the second half. Get your shit together, don't yell out shit you hear from people.. 
as opposed to not reading, not thinking, NOT EVEN WATCHING THE FUCKING NEWS (which you said earlier but then apparently removed it), and then expecting others to take you seriously? Also, Israel has barely been around for 6 decades.
A) Who says that I can't denounce that Taliban and not be called a hypocrite? Am I Israeli? Do I live in Israel?
B) Israel has never initiated violence. It always responds to an attack from neighboring countries (recently, Hamas and Hezbollah). In addition, Israel tries to root out terrorists and tries to limit their bombing so that it will create minimum damage with maximum efficiency. They are not indiscriminate. They search for terrorist groups, and try to pin down their location before bombing. Unfortunately, these terrorists groups send missiles into Israel while hiding amongst the civilians, so that if Israel bombs them, they are also killing innocent people. This benefits the terrorists in two ways: one, they are harder to find because they blend in with the common people, and two, they know that Israel will be more reluctant to bomb them if they use innocent people as shields. Now I'm not saying Israel hasn't made some big mistakes, because they have. Putting up that wall/fence around their border with Palestine was fucking dumb and worsened relations. But comparing Israel with the Taliban is fairly ridiculous.
now lets go through a bit of history: in the '90s, Yitzchak Rabin made peace with Yaser Arafat. Rabin was assassinated by a madman, and Arafat suddenly turned down the exact same offer for peace that the new president/prime minister made. Then, a couple years later, Ehud Barak offered Palestine all of the Gaza Strip, and most of the West bank. That is a huge portion of Israel. Arafat turned it down, and allowed Hamas to continue suicide bombing Israeli cities. So, uuhhhh...I can't say that Israel is blame free, because it's not, but you can't place the blame squarely on Israeli soldiers because that is preposterous.
oh and also, tw89, if you don't give me proof otherwise, I still assume that you haven't read a book and that you're spewin garbage. Nobody is backing their arguments here. Melbourne (or cigar omar, whatever) has given me no specific events, no names, no dates, no policies, nothing. This leads me to believe that he knows none of these things and is also spewing re-processed garbage. Prove me wrong, people, prove me wrong....
