Comparing the Taliban and the Confederacy are apples and oranges. I don’t support or like either, death to the Taliban, but the Taliban were (for worse) the dominant army in the area after the USA armed and financed their precursor mujahideen.
Jesus fucking Christ, man, did you forget that the Taliban overthrew the mujahideen government in the early 90s? Does the term “Northern Alliance” mean anything to you?
So, unfortunately, they were the only group practically capable of preventing the USA invading them from the other side of the world to seize the Afghani resources.
What resources did the US seize in Afghanistan again?
It wasn’t an invasion over slavery laws. It was for oil and trade routes,
Oil.
In Afghanistan.
The invasion was over political concerns, not ‘slavery laws’, I’ve never even heard that put forward before. The impetus for the invasion was that the Taliban were sheltering Bin Laden after 9/11.
and so many people will side with the Afghani state over the imperial Western alliance despite the Taliban being a disgusting regime
Just disgusted enough to side with the explicitly antidemocratic Islamists banning women from appearing in public, not disgusted enough to side with the nominally democratic Afghan government. Okay. That’s not really refuting my point that tankies are vile bootlicking fascists who’ll back anyone so long as you say “Anti-Imperialist” before their name, like a magic spell.
And remember, the Taliban were only in power because of the Western foreign interference, so it’s not like there was a real Lincoln trying to free Afghanistan from the Taliban.
There was a Lincoln; his name was Ahmad Shah Massoud, and the Taliban assassinated him in 2001.
Jesus fucking Christ, man, did you forget that the Taliban overthrew the mujahideen government in the early 90s? Does the term “Northern Alliance” mean anything to you?
What resources did the US seize in Afghanistan again?
Oil.
In Afghanistan.
The invasion was over political concerns, not ‘slavery laws’, I’ve never even heard that put forward before. The impetus for the invasion was that the Taliban were sheltering Bin Laden after 9/11.
Just disgusted enough to side with the explicitly antidemocratic Islamists banning women from appearing in public, not disgusted enough to side with the nominally democratic Afghan government. Okay. That’s not really refuting my point that tankies are vile bootlicking fascists who’ll back anyone so long as you say “Anti-Imperialist” before their name, like a magic spell.
There was a Lincoln; his name was Ahmad Shah Massoud, and the Taliban assassinated him in 2001.