@lizstl13@mastodon.sdf.org yeah they left out the actual details of how the taliban were founded and their name, Talib, means student. Habibullah Jan, a US backed warlord kidnapped 2 women near the home of former mujahadeen fighter Mullah Omar. Omar gathered his students to march on the warlord's camp where they found the women had been killed. Enraged, they took up arms
After the US invasion drove out the Taliban, Habibullah Jan returned and claimed a seat in the US backed parliament with a private army
@lizstl13@mastodon.sdf.org Habibullah Jan remained a vital US ally until 2008 when Taliban fighters waited in ambush and killed him. But his brother, Haji Lala, took over his private army and with US support, continued fighting the Taliban and persecuting the people of Afghanistan until 2020 when the US left, the Taliban marched on the capital, and Lala fled to Pakistan where he begged to be jailed to avoid being sent back to Afghanistan
@lizstl13@mastodon.sdf.org the article goes into a lot of important history but doesn't go into the very personal history that we were backing some horrifying warlords in Afghanistan directly which enraged the local populace so much, that they would prefer the Taliban over us and our pet warlords