Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Iran is correct about one thing

Taking aim at the U.S., Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that it's the United States that is playing a "double game" in Afghanistan, fighting terrorists it once supported.

At a press conference in the Afghan capital, Ahmadinejad was asked to respond to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who earlier in the week accused Tehran of "playing a double game" by trying to have a good relationship with the Afghan government while undermining U.S. and NATO efforts by providing some support to the Taliban.

Tehran has said it supports the Afghan government and denies allegations that it helps the Taliban.

"I believe that they themselves," who are now fighting militants in Afghanistan, "are playing a double game," he said. "They themselves created terrorists and now they're saying that they are fighting terrorists."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-03-10-iran-us-afghanistan_N.htm

Let us never forget that America helped create the Taliban to fight the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

Always remember that no action ever taken in Afghanistan by an outside power has ever turned out as intended.

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