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It does go to show that people sometimes don’t think ahead. They seem to have only ever considered the present and now reality hit them in the face lol. Similar happened to Trump when he was elected and suddenly had to…you know…work.
The Independent sure didn't!
I mean, isn't this like people predicting the year 2000 from the year 1920 and people in 2020 making fun of that being wrong? In neither situation could the future be predicted.
Him and his Mujahideen were awful religious zealots back then too. That was just ignored due to the "enemy of my enemy is my friend and thus a hero" principle that the US have consistently applied to some of the biggest monsters in history.
Well Ronald Reagan created the Taliban so that all checks out.
That's a very weird non-sequitor.
Is it? He funded them in Pakistan because the USSR was in Afghanistan and it was fine to fund terrorists as long as they attacked your enemy. They just didn't foresee it coming back to hurt us.
Fair enough. I sit corrected.