: re: Missile Strike by C.I.A. Drone Kills at Least 4, Pakistan Reports

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From: barry levine 
Date: Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 9:01 AM
Subject: re: Missile Strike by C.I.A. Drone Kills at Least 4, Pakistan Reports
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To the Editor:

   To characterize  the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan as "a Taliban-allied jihadi group" is like characterizing the United States as a "Soviet ally". Yes, we shipped billions of dollars worth of arms and munitions to keep the Red Army in the fight against our common enemy in Europe. But the Uzbek separatists have no more interest in the Taliban's dream of a Pashtunistan than FDR had in building up the Soviet empire.

Barry Haskell Levine

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/12/world/asia/missile-strike-by-cia-drone-kills-at-least-4-pakistan-reports.html?_r=0