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But then look at this country. Look at all the romantic hyperbole being flung right now. You'd think Benazir Bhutto was the Messiah from the way people are airbrushing her memory.
As of now, only the Lehrer News Hour has penetrated the fog of romance around Bhutto and reminded us that the Taliban was formed and sent into Afghanistan under Bhutto's watch.
One of their Pakistani experts brought this up in a panel discussion and the other two experts nodded gravely. Nobody contested this assertion at all.
Where is this past accomplishment of hers mentioned in the rest of the media? They mention nothing of this in her obit anywhere.
How do Americans think the Taliban happened?
Those mujahedin who fought the Soviet Union -- they were not the Taliban. Those old mujahedin were the soldiers the Taliban fought when the Taliban took over Afghanistan.
So where did the Taliban come from, huh?
They came from Pakistan, during Bhutto's second term in office.
Huckabee is not the only one who isn't seeing things clearly right now.
