This entire thread just makes me mourn the quality of history education in this part of the world.
Which nation, through a proxy war with the USSR, armed and empowered the progenitor of the Taliban?
Nearly everyone here desperately needs a crash course in how this part of the world creates circumstances for conflict and instability elsewhere. If you look closely enough you’ll see, from the colonial era to now, it was done with (often times malicious) intention.
The amazing thing about American foreign policy is that it thinks it can fix the problems it creates and it essentially never can.
This entire thread just makes me mourn the quality of history education in this part of the world.
Which nation, through a proxy war with the USSR, armed and empowered the progenitor of the Taliban?
Nearly everyone here desperately needs a crash course in how this part of the world creates circumstances for conflict and instability elsewhere. If you look closely enough you’ll see, from the colonial era to now, it was done with (often times malicious) intention.
The amazing thing about American foreign policy is that it thinks it can fix the problems it creates and it essentially never can.