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steeljack · 10-07-2009, 01:08

it was a "cool" place in the early 70s (good old days) when the Magic bus used to operate from London via Amsterdam to Katmandu with stopovers in Kabul ,blocks of pure hashish the size of Cadburys Dairy milk bars, (with official Govt. stamp in Gold leaf) .

That being said , don't think any of this Al Queda stuff would have happened if Ronald Reagan had left the Russian occupation alone or even allowed them to move a bit more south thru Baluchistan (Southern Pakistan/Iran) and have a warm water port on the Arabian sea. The idea that Russia would cut off Gulf oil supplies was rubbish , the west had enough oil, most of the cheap Gulf oil was going east to China and Japan ....ergo Ronald Reagan did more to destroy western manufacturing jobs by supplying cheap energy to China than anyone .

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steeljack God Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: SF/ Bay Area California Posts: 4,002 Liked: 0 times Rep Power: 1338	Re: Are we losing the War in Afghanistan? it was a "cool" place in the early 70s (good old days) when the Magic bus used to operate from London via Amsterdam to Katmandu with stopovers in Kabul ,blocks of pure hashish the size of Cadburys Dairy milk bars, (with official Govt. stamp in Gold leaf) . That being said , don't think any of this Al Queda stuff would have happened if Ronald Reagan had left the Russian occupation alone or even allowed them to move a bit more south thru Baluchistan (Southern Pakistan/Iran) and have a warm water port on the Arabian sea. The idea that Russia would cut off Gulf oil supplies was rubbish , the west had enough oil, most of the cheap Gulf oil was going east to China and Japan ....ergo Ronald Reagan did more to destroy western manufacturing jobs by supplying cheap energy to China than anyone .