Iran, Syria and Russia are allies with each other and enemies of the USA. Any attempt to let the AXIS alliance deal on its own with their and the US's enemy ISIS---will result in the AXIS manipulation of the entire situation AGAINST the USA. It happened in Afghanistan----we thought the TALIBAN was on OUR SIDE
But they were on our side, just ask Reagan. He was helping them fight the Russians.
The Taliban were formed in the 90's. They're godmother was Benazir Bhutto the ***** from hell.
so? I never suggested that Bhutto was a particularly strong minded person or
THE RIGHT LEADER for Pakistan------should could not PROTECT Pakistan from
the filth of Islamism------she just went the path her father set for her------with little strength------I cannot BLAME her for it
they got RENAMED "Taliban" in the 90s and BHUTTO did not invent them----
the Pakistani public school system RE-invented them------their ideology was
invented by muhummad---the rapist imperialist of Mecca and REINFORCED by
the bat out of Hell-------UMAR. Bhutto----according to the ass kissers of the
meccan rapist------was virtually an APOSTATE
Really? I must add I was thrilled to death when this ***** got whacked. Since the mid 90's I've fought for human rights and womens rights in Afghanistan so I know the tale of the Taliban intimately.
Bhutto helped create Taliban monster
In 1991, Pakistan's intelligence services stashed a massive cache of assault rifles and ammunition at a secret weapons dump in Spin Boldak, rushing armaments across the border as a (phony) deadline loomed for ending direct supply of their favoured combatants in Afghanistan's civil war.
Seventeen tunnels beneath the dump contained enough weaponry to arm thousands of soldiers.
Three years later, the Taliban broke the depot open and handed out rifles – still wrapped in plastic – to volunteers summoned from local madrassas, an incident documented in the authoritative book
Ghost Wars.
Within 24 hours, the Taliban captured Kandahar, Mullah Omar took possession of the governor's headquarters, and the airport was seized – with its six MiG-21 fighter jets, four Mi-17 transport helicopters, fleet of tanks and armed personnel carriers.
The Taliban gutting of Afghanistan was on, nearly all opponents swept aside, Kabul falling with barely a whimper.
As
Ghost Wars author Steve Coll so dryly put it:
"Benazir Bhutto was suddenly the matron of a new Afghan faction."
The late – twice – but no longer future prime minister of Pakistan was far, far from a stupid woman. The Taliban was a gamble she took, cunningly if not without considerable trepidation – and certainly at the behest of a powerful intelligence service, the ISI, she feared but had to accommodate, in the doomed hope of retaining office.
But make no mistake: The woman who is now being so widely mourned – assassinated last week, perhaps by the very elements she empowered more than a decade ago – was nurturing stepmother to terrorists incubated under her watch; the same Islamist fanatics she inveighed against during the election campaign that came to a screeching halt in the calamitous assault on her motorcade.
She was a brave woman, without question, but Bhutto was much to blame for the tinderbox that Pakistan became during her exile in Dubai and London – the toxic military entanglement with the Taliban – having helped to create a monster that not even the sponsoring ISI can control any longer.
For years, during her second tenure as PM, Bhutto lied brazenly to Washington about the extent to which Pakistan, with her approval, was covertly arming and funding the Taliban. As Bhutto admitted in a 2002 interview: "Once I gave the go-ahead that they should get the money, I don't know how much money they were ultimately given ... I know it was a lot. It was just carte blanche."
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Bhutto helped create Taliban monster | Toronto Star