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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: thames_sider who wrote (19456)7/26/2001 10:23:27 AM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
What the US didn't do effectively was work out who would actually be a 'good' leader - in, say, the Turkish sense, an Ataturk type - and support them while discouraging (or at least not funding/training/arming) the obviously vile types.

I've never been one to easily absolve the US from its responsibilities, but they had few chances in Afghanistan. The Taleban did not emerge into prominence until the Soviets had already fallen; most of the US arms they acquired came not from direct aid, but from groups that they absorbed. Their emergence was not something that could have been readily predicted and anticipated.
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