Pakistani intelligence backing al Qaeda: US admiral

US interest in Afghanistan was to remove Soviet influence ...... once that was done they moved on ...... what is wrong with that. They removed an external force / country and the it was upto the afghans to sort out their differences!!!!

I am sure if US had stayed a day more after the Soviet withdrawl everyone would have started calling them an "occupying force" . What happened in Afghanistan after Soviet withdrawl was an internal Afghanistan mess and they should have sorted it out !!! Everyone likes to have a scapegoat and US is the favourite one in this part of the world (not that they have not created their share of mess around the world).