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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: stockman_scott who wrote (57328)11/15/2002 11:59:24 AM
From: Karen Lawrence  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
The United States had the chance to bring stability, economic rejuvenation and democracy to Afghanistan in 1989, when the U.S.-backed Afghan guerrillas drove out the occupying Soviet forces. But once the Soviets were gone, Washington lost interest. A year of peace was followed by bickering among the country's ethnic factions. The result was a civil war that leveled much of Kabul and ushered in the Taliban and the conditions that led to Afghanistan's becoming a terrorist training center. This I did not know, but it's a case of too little, too late, and now we've created what looks to be a worse mess for those people. IMO
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