That was a short ten years ago. You want a short list of the wonderful things that was happening in Afghanistan at the time and what happened to the US a few years later? It was considerably sinister. BTW, the US wasn't so against dealing with the Taleban.
But it isn't the fact NOW and that was my point.
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