I may not be as young as you think old man.It did not come about because of the cold war, that's a complete cop-out. The US funded and supported the Taliban as a proxy against Russia, and that's why they were in power.
The link is about the fact that there was already a concerted, international as it happens, effort against the Taliban before Sep 11. Russia, India, Iran(!) and the US were supporting the northern alliance against the Taliban. Sep 11 gave certain people in the US the excuse they'd wanted for some time to step in and make some changes they'd been having to pussy foot around up to that point.
Incidentally you're a patronising twat.
(The link is about the fact that there was already a concerted, international as it happens, effort against the Taliban before Sep 11. Russia, India, Iran(!) and the US were supporting the northern alliance against the Taliban. Sep 11 gave certain people in the US the excuse they'd wanted for some time to step in and make some changes they'd been having to pussy foot around up to that point.
Incidentally you're a patronising twat.
slight yoinks!,
Fri 17 Oct 2008, 22:15,
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