Enter the Mujaheddin

by Joe Klein
It is very easy to overplay the news that some Al Qaeda sympathizers have joined the ranks of the Libyan rebels--as Drudge, who leads with it, does this morning--but that doesn't diminish the irony: the same sort of Islamic extremists who were our "freedom-fighters" against the Russian puppet regime in Afghanistan (and later became the Taliban) are now our "freedom-fighters" against Gaddafi. That's not to say they'll form the post-Gaddafi government, but they may demand a role in what comes next--the point is, who knows?

Read more: http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2011/03/26/enter-the-mujaheddin/#ixzz1HilqFGGG