Spare me the history lesson I was in there in real time.
The Black Panthers took up arms in a political disobedience in the political revolt that I was a part of -- we were not armed and killing anyone.
The Black Panthers wanted to provoke a shooting war and they got it -- there was no great conspiracy. Just like the Madras of the Taliban they had founded schools that taught and fed Black children in their community -- no they were not teaching love and understanding those were different times and they had their reasons.

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"The Black Panther Coloring Book was distributed in the United States in the late 1960s in an attempt to discredit the Black Panther Party, and the civil rights movement in general. "

To whom? Neo-Nazis or KKK Groups? I never saw or heard of one and I was there.

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The FBI's strategy was captured in a 1968 memo: "Consider the use of cartoons, photographs, and anonymous letters which will have the effect of ridiculing the New Left. Ridicule is one of the most potent weapons which we can use against it."

I was a minor player in the "New Left" It was us that made fools of the US Government with cartoons and "underground newspapers" By the time Nixon was forced to resign the FBI had lost to the Counterculture -- that's what we called ourselves collectively and we brought a nation to its knees. And we didn't arm children or make children march in front as human shields.

You are drinking the Kool-aid

Bill O'Rilley is just the same as a Dick Cavett was back in the 60's and entertainer and a provocateur. But he is as right as to intent as the US Army was right about burning the VC and the NVA out with Napalm. The intent was not to kill or maim non-combatants but the VC and the NVA stayed in populated villages they created many of their own victims wilfully. Victimization is seen as legit war propaganda and unsophisticated people buy it.

I guess we should drop paratroopers and chase the Taliban and try to sort them out from the goat herders? Not that many soldiers would die ... It the Taliban stood and fought like an army they would be slaughtered and they know it. They were the bandits of the Khyber Pass long before we came.

When we interfered in Afghanistan aiding the "Afghan Freedom Fighters" against our long time rivals the Soviet Union we set this thing in motion by arming the bandits of the Khyber Pass. Afghanistan was a payback for the Soviet involvement supporting North Vietnam. Thirty years later we have Jihadist Bombers in Boston last week. So here we are with no way back.

The North Vietnamese just chanted "Yankee go home!" The Taliban chant "Death to America". There could be a peace in Vietnam but the Taliban want death.

They have made this a fight to the death so give them what they want. But this will not end their Jihad. Their children's children will chant "Death to America" and some of their kindred will throw bomb here for years.