Nature deplores a vacuum, and one of the largest vacuums in recent history awaits to be filled as Anglo-Americans depart Afghanistan after 20 years, millions of lives lost, and over $2.2 trillion spent to send the once proud pearl on the Ancient Silk Road back to the stone age.
No. There is more ambiguity than you realize. The Mujahadeen morphed into Al Qaeda and were funded in large measure by the dope trade. The Taliban were created in the 1990s as a ultra conservative sect of islam and eliminated the majority of Afghan opium production by 2000. They were not Al Qaeda then or now.
Always appreciate your insights. The present and future are filled with hope, we dare not fail!
what do you mean? the Taliban IS the west; trained, financed, and supplied with weapons. They were put in charge to stop Afgan development.
No. There is more ambiguity than you realize. The Mujahadeen morphed into Al Qaeda and were funded in large measure by the dope trade. The Taliban were created in the 1990s as a ultra conservative sect of islam and eliminated the majority of Afghan opium production by 2000. They were not Al Qaeda then or now.