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"Every one knows and even number oftimes USA Administration accepted that it was their fault..."
Fault? I accept that along with the PRC, Great Britain, France, W. Germany, and Pakistan that we raised forth the afghan mujahideen to fight the Soviets.
So?
What most Pakistanis conveniently ignore is that the mujahideen included far more than simply those we fight now. They included many, many hazara, uzbek, tajik, and turkomen afghans. Virtually none of whom are our enemy today.
Of those former mujahideen whom remain fighting as taliban now, virtually all are very senior commanders like Omar, Haqqani, and Hekmatyar. Virtually all are pashtu. Virtually all their combatant soldiers, though, are too young to even remember the Soviets.
As for OBL, the truth for you may be painful but we didn't have a clue whom he was nor whom he'd become. Just a guy with money from KSA who wanted to play soldier for the cause.
The taliban, though, arose not from the Afghan-Soviet war but from the Afghan Civil War that followed. They didn't arise from the tribal belt of Pakistan but from Oruzgan province. They didn't arise in 1979-80 but, instead, in 1994.
America was LONG gone from those lands by then. You weren't though. Pakistan's games in Afghanistan continued long after we left. Why do you ignore that fact?
When the taliban did emerge, it was Benazir Bhutto who in 1994 decided that they'd hold greater value to Pakistan than your other protege, Hekmatyar, who was unceremoniously dumped for Omar.
Why? Simple. Hekmatyar held no sway in the afghan south. All his power resided in the Kabul-Jalalabad axis. He couldn't lift the brigand tollgates between Quetta and CAR that were costing the Pakistani trucking mafia huge sums monthly to facilitate goods back and forth from CAR via the Quetta, Kandahar, Lashkar Gar, Herat route.
Omar could and did hold that route open for Pakistan's trucking companies and thus were born the taliban. For that he became your ISI's lackey replacing Hekmatyar in most favored status. In 1996, the afghan taliban captured Kabul and assumed power.
Don't like it? Ask Ahmed Rashid to explain it to you.
That ends the lesson for today.
Thanks.
Fault? I accept that along with the PRC, Great Britain, France, W. Germany, and Pakistan that we raised forth the afghan mujahideen to fight the Soviets.
So?
What most Pakistanis conveniently ignore is that the mujahideen included far more than simply those we fight now. They included many, many hazara, uzbek, tajik, and turkomen afghans. Virtually none of whom are our enemy today.
Of those former mujahideen whom remain fighting as taliban now, virtually all are very senior commanders like Omar, Haqqani, and Hekmatyar. Virtually all are pashtu. Virtually all their combatant soldiers, though, are too young to even remember the Soviets.
As for OBL, the truth for you may be painful but we didn't have a clue whom he was nor whom he'd become. Just a guy with money from KSA who wanted to play soldier for the cause.
The taliban, though, arose not from the Afghan-Soviet war but from the Afghan Civil War that followed. They didn't arise from the tribal belt of Pakistan but from Oruzgan province. They didn't arise in 1979-80 but, instead, in 1994.
America was LONG gone from those lands by then. You weren't though. Pakistan's games in Afghanistan continued long after we left. Why do you ignore that fact?
When the taliban did emerge, it was Benazir Bhutto who in 1994 decided that they'd hold greater value to Pakistan than your other protege, Hekmatyar, who was unceremoniously dumped for Omar.
Why? Simple. Hekmatyar held no sway in the afghan south. All his power resided in the Kabul-Jalalabad axis. He couldn't lift the brigand tollgates between Quetta and CAR that were costing the Pakistani trucking mafia huge sums monthly to facilitate goods back and forth from CAR via the Quetta, Kandahar, Lashkar Gar, Herat route.
Omar could and did hold that route open for Pakistan's trucking companies and thus were born the taliban. For that he became your ISI's lackey replacing Hekmatyar in most favored status. In 1996, the afghan taliban captured Kabul and assumed power.
Don't like it? Ask Ahmed Rashid to explain it to you.
That ends the lesson for today.
Thanks.