Glad you are seeing both sides now. RP seems so clueless on our conflicts at times like this. He hears what he wants to hear, apparently, missing the obvious that AM puts forth so well.
Andy could take the Taliban/alQ relationship a step further:
"By quite consciously accommodating and protecting an international terrorist organization that was at war with the United States, the Taliban joined al-Qaeda and became an enemy of the United States." -- AM
The Taliban was not merely providing sanctuary to al Qaeda, they became co-conspirators and took direction from al Qaeda's strategy. The Taliban was guided by and assumed al Qaeda's ideology, including the goal of forwarding Sharia, a goal shared by the BOF Saudis, which AM mentioned.
It's become more than guilt by assotiation...