[ SECRET POST #2936 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2936 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

...the Taliban that they trained, armed, and funded, in the first place. Talk about "an inconvenient truth" eh!!!

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not sure what point you're trying to get at here. Could you expand on it a bit?

[(Anonymous)]

The Taliban would never have gained as much ground or power as they did, if the USA war machine hadn't backed them, in fighting the Soviets, in the eighties.

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, but where does that go? Are you saying that it was wrong for America to take action against them post-2001 because of that, or that it was wrong for them to support the Taliban when Afghanistan was being invaded, or what?

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

In my opinion, it wasn't right or wrong for them to support the Taliban when Afghanistan was being invaded; in my opinion, it was wrong for the USA to think that throwing guns and military support/money at the Taliban, would make the mujahideens somehow magically turn into a fully-Westernized democratic political group, once they had triumphed over the Soviets. It was either very naive, or extremely short-sighted, and gave us the situation we have in the Middle East today.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think they thought it would. I think they thought that they didn't really care about Afghanistan and it would help bleed the Soviets, who were their opponents they cared about a lot.

I think the strongest critique you can make here is probably a failure on America's part not to stay involved with Afghanistan after the fact. But I'm honestly not sure how much they could have been expected to, or whether anyone could have reasonably foreseen the consequences that ended up happening. Sometimes things just come up snake-eyes.