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Old 12th Aug 2021, 22:44
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Ninthace
 
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It seems the Taliban have been around since about 1978 and are in part a US product

”About 90,000 Afghans, including Mohammed Omar, were trained by Pakistan's ISI during the 1980s.[105]British professor Carole Hillenbrand concluded that the Taliban have arisen from those US-Saudi-Pakistan-supported mujahideen: "The West helped the Taliban to fight the Soviet takeover of Afghanistan"”

Does this count as an own goal or do we give it to Pakistan with a Western assist?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban


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