In truth, US policy on the Taliban, at whose birth the CIA played midwife, is coming full circle for the second time in little more than 15 years. The Clinton administration acquiesced in the Taliban’s ascension to power in 1996 and turned a blind eye as that thuggish militia, in league with Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence, fostered narcotics trafficking and swelled the ranks of Afghan war alumni waging transnational terrorism.
实际上，中情局催生了塔利班，在短短15年内，美国针对塔利班的政策重复了一遍。1996年，克林顿政府默许塔利班获得了执政地位，这个残暴的军政府与巴基斯坦的三军情报局合作，助长了毒品走私，壮大了阿富汗战争暴徒的队伍，任由他们发动国际恐怖袭击。然而，2001年9.11事件发生后，美国开始自食其果。向塔利班宣战，美国政策完整地实施了一遍。