Tom Hanks on the Rewards and “Vicious Reality” of Making Movies

Re:Tom Hanks on the Rewards and “Vicious Reality” of Making ... by gary_0 on Sunday May 28, 2023 @10:36PM (#36109955)

The Mujahideen were not the Taliban, which did not exist until 5 years after the Soviet-Afghan War. Some of the US-backed resistance fighters did go on to join the Taliban, but others opposed it and later sided with the US when they invaded in 2001.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_mujahideen#Relationship...

All that being said, obviously the US has failed repeatedly in Afghanistan, but the initial intervention against the Soviets was not the main factor. The Taliban's persistence is due to multiple US geopolitical blunders that happened in the decades after the Soviet-Afghan War.

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Re:Tom Hanks on the Rewards and “Vicious Reality” of Making ... by photochemsyn on Monday May 29, 2023 @12:04AM (#36110528)

Tell me more about our loyal Al Qaeda partners in Operation Timber Sycamore against the tyrannical Assad regime.

Or tell me more about CIA support for the Muslim Brotherhood in against Nasser in Egypt in what was it, the 1960s?

Do you really think US government support for violent fanatic Islamic fundamentalists as a bulwark against the Godless Communists was really all that good of an idea, in the end?

Geez, just admit it was retarded.

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Re:Tom Hanks on the Rewards and “Vicious Reality” of Making ... by Convolutional on Monday May 29, 2023 @12:15AM (#36110587)

The US backed radical Islamic jihadists to overthrow the secular government running Afghanistan. The US president invited them to the White House, then armed and funded them https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Reagan_s... .

Trying to split hairs saying there was infighting and not all of them joined the Taliban does not change that.

Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda also came out of all that.

Now I'll go back to reading the mainstream media's encomiums to the Azov batallion in the Ukraine.

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