re: #429 sagehen

That’s the kind of short-term thinking that led us to support the Mujahadeen. They were fighting communists! Crucial interests were at stake!! How dare anybody suggest it might backfire on us? (also, Mosaddegh. What fucking nerve he had, trying to nationalize their oil and be insufficiently subservient to BP. We’ll show him!)

Support for the Mujahadeen did not translate directly to the rise of the Taliban. There were many decision made in different countries that came between.The decision to use the them to bleed the Red Army remains the correct one in my opinion.