There you go again Bob...
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When the legitimacy of ones failed government is drawn not from the governed, but from some foreign power, that foreign power must expect to be on the target list for phase one of that nation's insurgency. Best to understand such attacks for what they are, and not simply interpret them as terrorist attacks by people who hate us, or adhere to a different religion.
Bob, for example, Afghanistan until 9/11 only had support from one nation, Pakistan.
Pakistan, from my time there until after 9/11 primarily relied on Communist China, not on the US.
Religious terrorism is it's own self justifying process and I have to again politely but strongly disagree with your view here.
Great little flap at the time.
I met Walker when we went to Little Rock to get the Kids in School. He was the OIC of the Operation as Cdr, Arkansas Military District. He was a trip; good to work for, though -- told you what he wanted and left you alone. No nitpicker he...
I recall a few years later reading several of his little diatribes and thinking "Darn, one of the good guys and he's totally lost it."