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«¿Cuántas naciones ha bombardeado USA desde 2001?» (Infografía: Al Jazeera)
I guess the destabilising bit there would be supporting the Taliban in the first place.
The Taliban that fought the Mujahideen we supported in the 80s? The Taliban that wasn't even formed until after US interest in Afghanistan was long-over? The Taliban that started a literal civil war against the Mujahideen? Those Taliban?
The Taliban was a part of the Mujahideen.
I know the US govt is incapable of thinking about the consequences of their actions, but you can try to do better.
Jesus fucking Christ.
The Taliban that was formed primary out of Pashtun religious students from Pakistan who were largely too young to have participated in the anti-Soviet Mujahideen? The Taliban that was formed in 1994? Half a decade after the Soviet invasion was over?
Tell me more about how the Taliban are consequences of not being genocided by the Soviets.
Americans rarely know the history of what they're fucking talking about, but you can do better than most of my countrymen.
Or maybe you can't, and this is the best you'll ever do.
Do you think the Taliban 'fell out of a coconut tree', as one of your politicians used to say? It is a successor to the Hezbi Islami, Haraqat Inqilab Islami and other factions of the Mujahideen. These were funded and armed by the US to destabilise the Soviets, with zero thought going into what would happen if a country's government is weakened and religious zealots let loose with weapons and cash. (This is not to absolve Pakistan's ISI, by the way. They wanted a weak and divided Afghanistan, and have helped various shady groups over the years.)
"Um, aktually, the Taliban is the successor to the Islamist groups it literally fought a brutal civil war against."
Your intellect is truly frightening.
"if a country's government is weakened"
I love how casually you gloss over the genocidal Soviet occupation as implicitly some form of harmless stability, but what should one expect from campist bootlickers?