INTERNATIONAL POLITICS

Afghans Are Reaping What the US Has Sown

And Afghan women are going to pay the highest price

Photo by Kristina Gupton, Parwan Province, 2010, CC BY 2.0

I admit my ignorance. Till yesterday, I was convinced that the US had armed and backed the Taliban only after Afghanistan’s invasion by the former Soviet Union in December 1979. Discovering that the Mujahideen were pretty much created from nothing…