• XIIIesq@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    And the Americans used to be on the side of the Taliban when it suited them in a proxy war with Russia.

    The point I’m making is that most people want a quiet and happy life. I know that dehumanising the enemy is a natural part of war, but try to be mindful of that and leave civilians out of it.

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      1 year ago

      And the Americans used to be on the side of the Taliban when it suited them in a proxy war with Russia.

      The Mujahideen of the 80s weren’t the Taliban. The Mujahideen-led government of the early 90s was quite explicitly attacked and overthrown by the Taliban, and reformed into the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, which still existed by the time of our intervention in Afghanistan in 2001.