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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (34503)	10/20/2001 12:22:09 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

We walked away from Afghanistan after the anti-Soviet jihad. This is the result. That statement puts too much blame on us. After the soviets left we had no enemy in Afghanistan. Our involvement before was to provide weapons. Who should we have provided weaopons to? Or should we have tried to take over from the Soviets and place our own puppet government in Afghanistan? The northern alliance wasn't particuarly brutal for Afghanistan it was not united. It is an aliance not a unified political structure. The members of the aliance fought each other for the presidency. The Taliban promised peace under its rule. I don't really want the aliance to rule, and not just because they botched it before. They don't have to many Pashtun soliders and Pashtuns are the biggest group in the country. They could however be part of a confederation or loose federation that leaves lots of local control instead of centralizing everything. Tim