Posted: Aug 16, 2021 7:36 am
don't get me started wrote:
It's Biden's fault for pulling out too precipitously. No, he only followed on from Trump who promised a withdrawal and emboldened the Taliban to engage in bogus peace talks while plotting this all along. No, it was the previous administrations who deludes themselves into thinking this country could be made into a facsimile of a 21st century western democracy. No, it's the Pakistanis and Saudis who fund and support this Islamist lunacy. No, it's the fault of the Americans for supporting and funding the Mujahadeen against the Soviets in the 1980's. No, it's the fault of the Soviets for invading in 1979. No, it's the fault of the great powers who drew the boundaries to suit their own purposes in The Great Game of the 19th century. No, it's the fault of the Muslim expansion that destroyed Buddhist culture that held sway there centuries ago....et cetera, et cetara, and so on and so forth.
Plausible solutions are no less complex and confounding than the apportioning of blame.
How long before a revanchist Taliban seeks to revenge themselves on Western imperial forces and generate similar cases for war for future generations?