4yrs Since 9/11-What did the US do Right/Wrong Afterwards?What Would You Have Done?
09-12-2015, 09:12 AM
This is what most people don't understand about the Afghanistan situation that Lizard King pointed out:
Afghanistan is one of the few nations in the world that literally had no intermediate power structures. It was village elders at the top of the bottom and people like Ahmad Massoud and Hamid Karzi rising up by going all in with their political ties, wealth or fighting prowess.
Foreign nations continued the power vacuum with constant reescalation when they would either fund proxy fighters or carry out assassinations. Karzi was almost killed in his cannonball run to power while trekking to Kabul. Massoud was killed by al Qaeda whom actually had no direct combatant concerns with the Northern alliance until US powers were inserted. Pakistan is a Pashtun nation. In desperation to gain neighboring allies and not be enemy locked on its east and west borders, it funds any Pashtun element that looks able to take power. That's a large part of how the Taliban initially gained power when it was a mockery during the first years of the American-Afghan war. Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan all support their own rebel fighters due to ethnic ties.
Afghanistan is one of the few nations in the world that literally had no intermediate power structures. It was village elders at the top of the bottom and people like Ahmad Massoud and Hamid Karzi rising up by going all in with their political ties, wealth or fighting prowess.
Foreign nations continued the power vacuum with constant reescalation when they would either fund proxy fighters or carry out assassinations. Karzi was almost killed in his cannonball run to power while trekking to Kabul. Massoud was killed by al Qaeda whom actually had no direct combatant concerns with the Northern alliance until US powers were inserted. Pakistan is a Pashtun nation. In desperation to gain neighboring allies and not be enemy locked on its east and west borders, it funds any Pashtun element that looks able to take power. That's a large part of how the Taliban initially gained power when it was a mockery during the first years of the American-Afghan war. Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan all support their own rebel fighters due to ethnic ties.