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Originally Posted by Ant10708
Also we didn't make the taliban in the 80s. They didn't exist in the 80s. The taliban formed out of the fundamentalists schools that the mujaheddin set up during soviett occupation.
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To the letter of the facts, you are correct, we did NOT make the Taliban. We DID, however, give aid, comfort and arms to the Mujaheddin, who DID give rise to the Taliban. But this is neither here nor there.
The point stands that, for better or worse, the government's idea of aid is, by and large, to do things FOR the impoverished and starving masses, rather than to help them subsist by giving them the EDUCATION they need to make a better life for THEMSELVES.
We are more likely to give them military advisors than we are to give them teachers and doctors. Look at Iraq - our main objective in educating the people there is to give them weapons and create a police force. That's the quick fix - anything else requires a lot of patience, something most governments are lacking.
