[quote]pushharder wrote:
This created a political power vacuum in a country that really never has operated as a country in its history. Rather it has virtually always existed more as collection of warring tribes somewhat protected by its geography.
A few years many, but not all, of the Afghan rebels who had been on the receiving hand of US training and equipment during the Soviet occupation allowed religious extremism to cause them to bite the hand that had fed them; the hand that had helped them expel the Bear.
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let me pick it up from hereā¦next a civil war broke out among the rebels. In the midst of this war, the children of Afghan refugees raised in Pakistani Wahabbi madrasses, and armed from Saudi money, built up a formatible force. This group, calling itself the Taliban, invaded Afghanistan and drove most of the warring factions to the northern part of the country, where they became known as The Northern Alliance.
and the rest, as they say, is history.
