Dear Don--you wrote: "Your statement that we aided the Soviet Union in their attempt to "conquer" Afghanistan is completely erroneous." You're right on that-- what I meant to say of course was that the Russians tried to conquer the Afghans, WHOM WE AIDED---because as has been said before, the CIA funded and armed the Taliban when THEY were fighting the Russians. More later. I apologize for the misstatement.....should have proof read it more carefully. . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn