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Originally Posted by mineistaken
Nice to hear that you finally understand that US government supported Taliban for years.
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I don't believe this is true at all.
The Taliban came into existence shortly after the Russian invasion of Pakistan, but was more of a Pakistani-trained mujahideen fighting force. It's very possible that US provided financial support, and perhaps even trained them, but we did this with a large number of "groups" of varying ideology and dubious intentions. We weren't grooming them to become the future government of Afghanistan, nor did we ever imagine the Taliban would eventually become the government there.
Saying the United States "supported the Taliban" is a bit of a stretch.