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2021-08-18

Rashida Tlaib: ''...the horrible consequences of endless war and failed US policy going back to the 1980s when we backed the Taliban against the Soviets...''

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Posted by Fred 2021-08-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [14 views ] Top
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#1 Thank you for taking the time to write this, Fred.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-08-18 03:39|| 2021-08-18 03:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Remarkable recall.

Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-18 04:27|| 2021-08-18 04:27|| Front Page Top

#3 We backed the Mujahedeen against the Soviets. The Mujahedeen later became the Taliban.

There was a Rambo movie in which the Mujahedeen are the heroes. *Cough* awkward.

Posted by Cleaque Hatrack2665 2021-08-18 06:18|| 2021-08-18 06:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Whoever's side Ratshita is on, I'm agin' it...

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-18 09:07|| 2021-08-18 09:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Cleaque: You are incorrect. We funded the Muj war against the Soviets by providing the military materiel. That materiel was turned over to the Afghan rebels in Karachi port, and the USA had nothing to do but complain about its distribution which was organized by the Pak military ISI. The genesis of the ISI is found in the geopolitical aspirations of Pak strongman Zia ul Haq. The incipient Taliban organization had little effect on the Afghan rebel victory over the Soviets. However, again thanks to the ISI and its leader Hamid Gul, by 1994 its strength had grown considerably within the region's Pashtunistan. The Taliban were by then able to overcome the feckless Hekmatyar and neutralize the equally feckless warlords, and the rest is, as they say, history.

Posted by Bertie Crains2651 2021-08-18 09:24|| 2021-08-18 09:24|| Front Page Top

#6 The genesis of the ISI is found in the geopolitical aspirations of Pak strongman Zia ul Haq

Not to mention the absolute self-absorbed ninnery of India.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-08-18 09:28|| 2021-08-18 09:28|| Front Page Top

#7 Cleaque is very obtuse. I thought I made myself clear: The Sovs left in 1988. The Taliban were founded in 1994. The only major Muj commander associated with the Taliban was Jalaluddin Haqqani. The Northern Alliance Muj were never a part of it. Even Hekmatyar wasn't part of it.

Posted by Fred 2021-08-18 10:50|| 2021-08-18 10:50|| Front Page Top

#8 It’s Herb McCoy. He can’t help being stupid, poor dear.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-08-18 11:21|| 2021-08-18 11:21|| Front Page Top

#9 Muddy waters, and I don't mean the blues man. Thanks for the history, Fred. Couldn't get it anywhere else.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-08-18 11:29|| 2021-08-18 11:29|| Front Page Top

#10 Thanks for the history, Fred. It clarifies some things I was hazy about.

Posted by magpie 2021-08-18 17:03|| 2021-08-18 17:03|| Front Page Top

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