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Afghanistan with Tariq Ali

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Was the Intervention in Afghanistan an Accidental Blowback?

Talibis, the singular, or tali, means a scholar and taleban scholar's organization. The one thing they weren't were scholars, but they were very young people trained by the army. In most of the elections that have taken place in pakistan, real elections, the religious parties have actually not on too many votes. It's very much an outside force outside the traditional boundaries of pacistani politics. And has it become too large to be dealt with by the militaryan inion? i think the balcastan army was really waiting for the avrand situation to be solved before they take any more decisions on what to do with their own gehadi groups.

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