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Re:Fighting Like Taliban by AniseAbyss on Monday August 23, 2021 @03:08PM (#28280537)
I disagree, in the beginning the Americans were hopeful they could impose a puppet state with permanent US military bases. Look at a map and you can see the allure. Nobody in the region was particularly enthusiastic with that idea.
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Re:Fighting Like Taliban by mcguire on Monday August 23, 2021 @04:45PM (#28281692)
Nobody was particularly enthusiastic about the Taliban, either. Except perhaps the Pakistanis, who wanted a relatively friendly, stable country on their border (IIRC, there was an oil/gas pipeline involved.)
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