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The United States is the biggest destabilizer, through bombing, of world peace so far this century (lemmy.world)
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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 0 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Yes. The Taliban was a faction (well, a couple of factions) of the Mujahideen that then fought a civil war against various other factions of the Mujahideen.

Again, ignoring that the Taliban was formed largely by Pashtun religious students from Pakistan who were too young to have been involved in the Mujahideen.

Genocidal? Taraki and Karmak were not perfect. They tried to change things too quickly, and angered many traditionalists and rural groups. But there’s a bit of a difference between ‘repressive’ or ‘harsh’ and genocidal. It’s the difference between, say, Saudi Arabia and Israel. Anyway, back to my criticism:

Fucking lmao. Killing 10% of Afghanistan's population is just 'harsh'.

The US funded and armed a bunch of ultra-religious nutjobs to fight a government which, while far from perfect, had enacted reforms, protected the rights of women, and maintained a balance between the various tribes. It is not hard to predict what would result if that government collapsed, and, in fact, that is exactly what happened. Are all US military experts dumb? Or did they simply not care? Either way, they destroyed a country.

Did you forget that US aid to Afghanistan didn't even start until the Soviets invaded to prop up their puppet government, which had failed of its own accord, not 'maintained a balance between the various tribes'?

Fuck off, tankie.

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works -1 points 4 hours ago

Again, ignoring that the Taliban was formed largely by Pashtun religious students from Pakistan who were too young to have been involved in the Mujahideen.

Heard of this guy called Mullah Omar? Google that name.

Fucking lmao. Killing 10% of Afghanistan's population is just 'harsh'.

Any evidence for this claim?

which had failed of its own accord

Again, evidence? The Afghan government was beating the terrorists even after the Soviets left, so on what basis had they 'failed'?