Maybe this is a dumb question, but I’ve been thinking about it recently. With the Taliban taking back over Afghanistan, I’m trying to see things from a non-American perspective.
Is the Taliban actually a bad organization or do they have a warped image of being evil thanks to America? Are they more comparable to say, Hamas, rather than ISIS?
They were trained by the CIA, so you don't have to wring your hands wondering whether or not they're really a bunch of bastards.
Fun fact, The United States wrote a mujahideen textbook for Afghani children and distributed it through the country. It taught ABC's and also how to build bombs, shoot guns, and perform jihad. My heart breaks for the kids who read this shit, but there's no denying that it turned them into a fucked-up group of people.
Trained by the CIA is really overstating the facts. That's like saying I was raised by my dad if my dad left when I was born, but paid some child support and sent the occasional postcard.
Trained by the people who were trained by the CIA? I don't know, there's a lot of reporting out there that points to the CIA being directly involved in operations in Afghanistan back in the day. There are younger generations of guys who didn't have direct contact with the US for sure, but the wheels were set in motion by American hands.
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Everytime they hit a new low they just keep raising the bar
the USA is like the Michael Jordan of foreign misconduct
They tried this in China too lmao, got a few people on the school board to distribute textbooks that promoted Turkic nationalism and fundamentalism.
When the state caught on and recalled all the textbooks and arrested the perpetrators, the western reporting on it was something along the lines of "China silences dissidents and pushes propaganda onto children"
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