People really think the Taliban is not tied to the US Department of Dirty Tricks?

Yes, we created the Taliban, like it or not! 

Most Americans obviously do not remember, or know about, or they just stupidly deny the 1980s, when the "mujahideen" "freedom fighters" got propped up with US military advisers and weapons deliveries to fight a proxy war against the Soviet Union. 

 

US gave them guided missiles, grenade launchers, machine guns, assault weapons, and all the munitions they wanted and more than they could carry back then. 

More importantly, they also got training from US military "advisers" that taught them some really nasty tricks about fighting a really dirty war. 

 

The warlords we supported in the 1980s (the exact opposite of wet Hollywood fantasies about fictitious royal honourable fighters in "Rambo III" and "The Living Daylights") later morphed into Al Quaida, Taliban, and ISIS. The guys we propped up were absolutely not nice!

 

Yes, they have always had their nasty warlords, but we made them worse and better equipped than ever, and now we have a historically fierce monster that has outgrown and seriously whooped US, with no possible win in sight. The smarter officers who fought there know it, as I just heard in a few interviews. 

 

Afghanistan has been invaded for thousands of years. Even Alexander The Great was not the first emperor to attempt running through it to get to India, but he was the best known of antiquity.

 

Empires always got their asses handed to them by the Afghanis, and the USA is no exception. It is called the "Graveyard Of Empires" for good reason.

 

Everybody who tried to play the tribes, always ended up creating a monster they could not control, because people don't like to be ruled by invaders. The Taliban will eventually fade, if no other empire moves in with guns again. But that fading will take more than a life-time, or three, and will likely be interrupted by another invader.

 

Just a few of the empires that had their butts handed to them in Afghanistan:

 

Greeks

Romans

Persians

Ottomans

Indians

Mongols

Brits

Soviets

Americans

 

So who is next?

AH! China is next to try and fail you say, because they are already sending people there, right?

 

I for one think China will be there to stay, because they are not moving in with battle horses, guns, and tanks. They are moving in with railroads, bridges, waterworks, power-plants, and other things people actually want.

So far, every place they moved into has been quiet, and nobody really notices how far China has spread its sphere. They don't bomb their way in. They just peddle. And they win where others fail.