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Originally Posted by sortie
Here's what I know about Afghanistan:
We supported Osama against the Russian invasion which led to the Taliban taking control. Then we bombed the Taliban out; and for the last couple of weeks Karzai (president of Afghanistan) has offered the Taliban high goverment offices to stop the fighting.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070930/....R5DvTLiOs0NUE
Sounds like you are advocating that we engage in another complete failure. |
How was supporting the Taliban during the Russian invasion a complete failure? It directly led to the downfall of the Soviet Union, which is exactly why we did it. We had to make a lot of tough choices to support complete scum bags during the Cold War, and a lot of those choices are coming back to bite us in the ass, but politically that was a different time.