### Comment:
Sure. But there was no indication at that time that more radical hardline Islamists were going to seize power when the Soviets were gone. What we were doing at the time was training freedom fighters to kick out an invading force. The unfortunate reality is that the groups we helped could not form a government and cooperate with each other at the end.

### REPLY:
We always train 'freedom fighters' that turn out to be right-wing death squads or insane religious zealots because these are the groups with zero scruples that have what it takes to win a brutal civil war. 
  
 We make the same mistake over and over again and no one cares as all our money is exported

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