Reply #45: Not at all... [View All]

I'm just saying if Afghanistan and Pakistan had been under Soviet rule, they might have universal literacy, gender equality, and some modicum of social progress akin to that which the Muslim-majority nations under Soviet rule has enjoyed. The West is to blame for the rise of both Islamic and Christian fundamentalism and nurtured then in a myriad of ways as a means of checking the influence of socialist ideas. Pitting one fundamentalism faction against another (Christian against Muslim, Taliban vs. Northern Alliance, or anything else) is not going to fix it.

The Soviet Union didn't actually invade Afghanistan till Washington started carrying water for the Islamists.