When you think about Taliban being marionettes of the US and the US even fliyng out Laden's family during september. There is only 1 answer.

The answer is neither US soldiers/citizens nor Taliban because they both fight for a lie. The real bad guys are sitting in their antique chairs, smoking cuban cigars, drinking champagne and scotch and laughing at all of us while they count their money. (some individuals might also pet a pussy and wear an eye patch)

Um yea arming rebels and insurgents to fight against more oppressive people....yea that was really evil and provoking. If it was in the US's interest or not...it was just far from provoking

Arming them wasn't provoking (though arguably evil as it was only done out of spite to cost the USSR money and lives), abandoning them when they were no longer necessary was especially when they had made promises of support and funding for schools and infrastructure. Then there is the little matter of Iraq.

The US killed way more people directly and indirectly than any other country that ever existed on Earth...yes including Nazi and communist. Take all war conducted by the U.S., count the dead.

Hell even the U.S. police killed 5000 civilians in the U.S. only, which way more than 9/11.

all i'll say is that i think there's a lot more to this issue than the mainstream media has been allowed to discuss and that applies to every other important issue as well
if you can control the information someone has access to then you can directly manipulate that person's perception

why is it so hard to believe?

your governement lied to you directly after about weapons of mass destruction so they could bolster the momentum from the 9/11 attack to justify a war in iraq

which led not only to the death of thousands maybe millions of iraqis but also to the deaths of several united states people who were sent as armed forces

maybe you need to open your mind to considering alternative points of view beyond what the mainstream media spoon feeds you

Whoever started it.