ryoder 1,590
Most of their funding comes from bake sales.
Bake sales that feature brownies.
Really special brownies. 
It's why they all have the munchies over there.
HAMMER:
Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a
kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts adjacent the
object we are trying to hit.
Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a
kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts adjacent the
object we are trying to hit.
airdvr 210
For relatively rare individuals, an obsessive compulsion to believe, prove or re-tell a conspiracy theory may indicate one or more of several well-understood psychological conditions, and other hypothetical ones: paranoia, denial, schizophrenia, mean world syndrome.
Please don't dent the planet.
Destinations by Roxanne
Destinations by Roxanne
Zep 0
I some time wonder if these third world conflicts aren't really funded by the first world.
One way of looking at it is that if the world was at peace then a lot of ministries and companys
(with a high percentage of politician share holders) would become redundant.
Gone fishing
One way of looking at it is that if the world was at peace then a lot of ministries and companys
(with a high percentage of politician share holders) would become redundant.
Gone fishing
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I bet most will say "opium".
That's not the case. While opium does provide a small percentage of the Talibans' funding the vast majority of Taliban funding is from the United States.
Actually, that's not true. The vast majority of it comes of Saudi Arabia.
References?
Blues,
Cliff
Let me get this straight: someone else has to provide references to back up a statement that disagrees with what you wrote, yet when you make another one of your own ridiculous assertions (like the one that started this thread), you don't have to provide any supporting information at all, except to say that "it's like the mafia?"
Troll...
The best things in life are dangerous.
QuoteYou'll think, "that can't be!". Cliff is full of shit!
I thought that before you began this thread.
Could you show us your references first? You know, the ones that cover everything you wrote in the original post? Doubt it.QuoteQuoteQuote
I bet most will say "opium".
That's not the case. While opium does provide a small percentage of the Talibans' funding the vast majority of Taliban funding is from the United States.
Actually, that's not true. The vast majority of it comes of Saudi Arabia.
References?
Blues,
Cliff
champu 1
QuoteAnd I suspect Iran may also be contributing.
The difference being when you take money from the Saudi's, you do what you want with it.
When you take money from Iran, you do what they tell you to do with it.
Keep in mind that Saudi Arabia and the Taliban are Sunni (more specifically, and only slightly less universally, Salafist) while Iran is Shi'a.
Shi'ites and Salafists are not historically known for "banding together."
ryoder 1,590
QuoteQuoteAnd I suspect Iran may also be contributing.
The difference being when you take money from the Saudi's, you do what you want with it.
When you take money from Iran, you do what they tell you to do with it.
Keep in mind that Saudi Arabia and the Taliban are Sunni (more specifically, and only slightly less universally, Salafist) while Iran is Shi'a.
Shi'ites and Salafists are not historically known for "banding together."
Historically, yes.
But over the last couple decades, Iran has become very pragmatic wrt overlooking religious differences between Islamic sects, when it helps to further their interests.
"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.
champu 1
QuoteQuoteQuoteAnd I suspect Iran may also be contributing.
The difference being when you take money from the Saudi's, you do what you want with it.
When you take money from Iran, you do what they tell you to do with it.
Keep in mind that Saudi Arabia and the Taliban are Sunni (more specifically, and only slightly less universally, Salafist) while Iran is Shi'a.
Shi'ites and Salafists are not historically known for "banding together."
Historically, yes.
But over the last couple decades, Iran has become very pragmatic wrt overlooking religious differences between Islamic sects, when it helps to further their interests.
It would be foolish of Iran to think of the Taliban as an ally. I think they're providing just enough support to get our goat, and have no real desire for them to come back to power in Afghanistan.
ryoder 1,590
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Historically, yes.
But over the last couple decades, Iran has become very pragmatic wrt overlooking religious differences between Islamic sects, when it helps to further their interests.
It would be foolish of Iran to think of the Taliban as an ally. I think they're providing just enough support to get our goat, and have no real desire for them to come back to power in Afghanistan.
Iran would be thinking of them as puppets, not allies.
"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.
quade 4
QuoteIt would be foolish of Iran to think of the Taliban as an ally.
Just as it was foolish of the US to do so during the Soviet/Afgan war.
quade -
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The World's Most Boring Skydiver
QuoteQuoteYou'll think, "that can't be!". Cliff is full of shit!
I thought that before you began this thread.
I bet I didn't change your mind.
Blues,
Cliff
2muchTruth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Baer#Books
Uhm ,ryoder,
I don't know how to put this delicately but wikipedia is the source who used to state that skydivers breathed through their skin/gills while in freefall.
Do you really trust the info there?
Blues,
Cliff
I'm sorry but if you can't take a clue to read a book, then there is nothing further we can do for you.