| Ka-pi96 said: The Taliban. I mean the fact that the Afghanistan people themselves don't want the Taliban kind of shows that. |
But the fact that the Afghanistan people themselves don't want the western military forces either kind of shows that this doesn't really answer the original question.
And most Afghanis are very well aware that the Taliban are just a by-product of earlier US involvement in Afghanistan. They are the same warriors that the US used as a proxy army for fighting the soviets in Afghanistan in the 80s and supported by shipping them weapons etc. The same Mujahideen who were so positively being portrayed in Rambo 3. For the cause of anti-soviet propaganda, the US even created schoolbooks for afghani children that should introduce them to the concept of Jihad.
Then when the soviets finally gave up on Afghanistan, those people now had lots of weapons etc. supplied by the americans etc., but since they were no longer of any interest to the US, the US no longer supported them, and tenthousands of people became jobless and useless from one day to the other. But most of them had never learnt anything but killing, so they didn't simply throw away all those weapons and started normal jobs, but instead became mercanaries for whoever would pay them, and many of them actually acquired an anti-western mentality, seeing how the west had only used them for its own interests and didn't give a damn about them once they were no longer being useful.
Afghanistan is a great example of why it almost ever turns out a bad idea to use a local militia as a proxy army and supply them with arms.
