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The Northern Alliance is Russia and China's military alliance with some help from India and Iran. The Taliban were linked to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia (and were star allies of America) and they are out of power. Since the USA under Clinton and Bush invited the Taliban for diplomatic normalcy talks (that failed) it makes sense that these nations rather not have America there for too long now that their guys are in power in Afghanistan (thanks to us in an ironic twist).

Lastly, as guests in these nations - if they ask us to leave their sovereign territory what are we to do? Stage a good old fashioned coup? Why should they trust us after some of these 'Stan govts hosted bases and we re payed them with State Dept supported "democratic revolutions".

See what happens when you back the wrong people (9/11)? Live and learn.

PS: The State Dept (or whoever carries out policy in the 'Stans) should learn how to play guest in someone else's home - this is a warning - stop exporting these color coded revolutions - you Americans are playing with fire, kind of warning.

The Taliban were linked to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia (and were star allies of America) and they are out of power. See what happens when you back the wrong people (9/11)? Live and learn. PS: The State Dept (or whoever carries out policy in the 'Stans) should learn how to play guest in someone else's home..."

Sigh. You're thinking "cold war" politics. The world today was born on 9-11.

Americans found out that letting dictators terrorize their own so long as they don't interfere with our OWN freedoms was self-contradictory in a world where the most evil, hateful person on Earth was never more than 14 hours away. Those dictatorships BREED terrorists. The new terrorists are coming from the countries of our dictator "allies" and from the countries of tyrants we've dealt closely with: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, the Mujahadeen, and the West Bank. Those 'Stans with their oppressed and insulated people are the terrorist regimes of tomorrow and our only hope of winning the war is to seed democracy wherever we can.