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Originally posted by Strange Famous
I completely agree that the state of Afghanistan should be blamed both on Russia and America. And the "enemy of my enemy" policy, gives you people like the Taleban (and Saddam Hussain)
Both Russia and America were playing politics with the fates of entire nations (just as the European colonialist state's did before them) and a lot of the world's problems today can be traced back to that.
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Whoo. You actually made sense on that one. I agree with you there, at the time, stuff seems really great and then later on down the road, stuff gets really bad. While America never supported the Taliban, it did leave an environment for it to take over. We just simply didn't take responsibility (if we had started nation building back then, our job might be easier today). Yet, hindsight is 20/10, it would be great if we could look into a crystal ball and see if what we do now will screw something else up, but we can't. However, I do think that we are more wary of the actions that we take today than even we were 10 years ago.