On Dec 8, 8:49*pm, "DGDevin" wrote:
"harry" *wrote in message

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What made Bush think he could do any better than the might of the USSR
situated right next door?

Well, actually he did. *The Taliban was destroyed and/or fled, and didn't
really bounce back for four or five years. *Unfortunately the U.S. and its
allied had put Afghanistan so far on the back burner that those precious
years were lost and the Taliban stepped back into almost a power vacuum,
stronger than ever. *It's kind of like home repair, you have to finish the
job or there is little point in even starting.

Now I got the impresion that the CIA was helping the Taliban just
because they were fighting the USSR.