The Pakistan Afghan on going war

[Ninurta]

Somehow doubt the Talibunnies will blitz into Pakistan like the image of that first video depicts 

Paks will definitely have an edge in any conventional battles.

Like Ninurta wrote, the Talibunnies are spawn of Pakistan's deep state.  There is a bit of karma in all this.

I tried to keep that previous post brief, so I wasn't very thorough on the history and development of the Taliban.

The Taliban was initially a creation of the Pakistani ISI, recruited from Pakistani madrasas in the aftermath of the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. The Soviets left in, I believe, 1991, and the Taliban did not exist at all until 3 years later in 1994. The Soviets ran so fast they left a hole in the air, and a power vacuum in Afghanistan. The ISI, seeking to exploit that power vacuum and exploit Afghan mineral resources for themselves, created the Taliban (meaning "the students") in order to send them into Afghanistan to take control of the country as a proxy, to do the bidding of Pakistan in the control of Afghanistan. Not so much a client state as a puppet state. By 1996, the Taliban had effective control of over half of Afghanistan, ruling on behalf  (and enjoying the full support) of Pakistan.

Then shit started sliding sideways, and the Taliban started increasingly slipping out from under Pakistani control.

Former mujahideen warlords started joining the Taliban, giving the false impression that the Taliban was a holdover from the Soviet war days, when it was nothing of the sort. Warlords like Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (may he roast in hell!). were joining the Taliban solely because they believed that membership in it were their own future path to power. Like Hekmatyar, they drifted whichever way the wind blows, changing alliances as frequently as an American changes socks. They had and still have no honor or loyalty, only ambition.

Other former mujahideen warlords, like Ahmed Shah Masood, actively opposed the Taliban.

So, the new Taliban and the old mujahideen are NOT the same thing, despite internet claims to the contrary that postulate the Taliban was "a creation of the CIA". It was not, it was a creation of the ISI, but the defections of old ambitious warlords (who sometimes WERE supported, but not created, by the CIA against the Soviets) into Taliban ranks tended to foster that misconception and promote that confusion. This is why the gent in the first video, even at this late date when, had he done his homework, would have known better, still make claims of "the Taliban was a creation of the CIA, and fought against the Soviets". They were not, and they did not. They did not even exist when the Soviets were embroiled in Afghanistan.

I think it is poetic justice that the monster created by the Pakistanis has now come full circle, and turned to bite them in the ass.

I have no use for the Pakistani ISI (or any of their creations for that matter), those duplicitous theivin' bastards.

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