Decades of misinformed military and political fetishizing of Afghanistan and terrorism have created their own enduring mythology in the US. Al Qaeda and the Taliban were never bedfellows, nor were they even close. 9/11 was conceived and planned in Germany, not Afghanistan. It was the US that harbored and taught the 9/11 terrorists how to fly. It was US airport security that was lax and US airlines that pushed back on security recommendations to have $20 door locks installed in cockpits on the grounds of cost. It was the Bush-Cheney junta that ignored intelligence reports of an imminent al Qaeda … Continue reading Taliban’s Al Qaeda Nexus