I don’t know what to tell you. It’s the equivalent of saying “but he is not angel” about a country that is a direct product of an American war against USSR, when it is now engaged in a proxy war against America. I don’t find it relevant or helpful to understanding why the war took place.

They also say this to their largely western audience. It’s just my opinion but I don’t think this tendency to divide the world in good and bad camps then voicing support for good ones is a helpful strategy especially when Americans and other westerners do this. God knows how many bad countries are bad because of western colonialism and imperialism. People are aghast that the Taliban is rescinding what little women’s rights there were in Afghanistan. There is a very long chain of events that puts western involvement directly as the culprit of Afghanistan’s current situation. What is point of a westerner supporting or not supporting Afghanistan or Taliban? I doesn’t make sense to me. It’s more reasonable to oppose western involvement wholesale rather than trying to sieve the good from bad in an imperialised world.