I’m very curious. Had those weed smookin Anarachistanis not done that, we’d not have the jehadi culture today and no madrassahs to get rid off. They were all “planted” in Pak to drive the communists out of that wasteland we have to our west. So really today, whatever we’re seeing are consequences of what some loony Afghani on a charras driven high had done. I say, why don’t we just colonise AFghanistan?
Re: Why did the Afghanis invite the communists over in the 70s?
funny. afghanis think it is the ISI which ruined their society with jihadi culture for the sake of pak and US' strategic depth, and you say afghanis created jihadi culture in pak.
anyway, its beyond pak to colonize afghanistan.
Re: Why did the Afghanis invite the communists over in the 70s?
I strongly believe that if soviets had remained in Afghanistan, it would be a much better place…more like Kazhastan or Tajikstan level.
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Russian military involvement in Afghanistan has a long history, going back to Tsarist expansions in the so-called “Great Game” between Russia and Britain, begun in the 19th Century with such events as the Panjdeh Incident. This interest in the region continued on through the Soviet era in Russia, with billions in economic and military aid sent to Afghanistan between 1955 and 1978.[4]](Soviet–Afghan War - Wikipedia)
In February of 1979, the Islamic Revolution had ousted the US backed Shah from Afghanistan’s neighbor Iran. In the Soviet Union, Afghanistan’s northern neighbor, more than twenty percent of the population was Muslim. Many Soviet Muslims in Central Asia had tribal kinship relationships in both Iran and Afghanistan. The Soviet Union had also been concerned by the fact that since that February the United States had deployed twenty ships, including two aircraft carriers, and the constant stream of threats of warfare between the US and Iran.[5]](Soviet–Afghan War - Wikipedia)
March of 1979 also marked the signing of the US backed peace agreement between Israel and Egypt. The Soviet Union leadership saw the peace agreement between Israel and Egypt as a major step in the progression of US power in the region. In fact, one Soviet newspaper stated that Egypt and Israel were now “gendarmes of the Pentagon”. The Soviets viewed the treaty as not only a cessation in the hostilities between the two nations but also as some form of military agreement. [6]](Soviet–Afghan War - Wikipedia) In addition, the Soviets found America selling more than five thousand missiles to Saudi Arabia and also supplying the successful Yemeni resistance against communist factions. Also, the Soviet Union’s previously strong relations with Iraq had recently soured. Iraq, in June 1978, began buying French and Italian made weapons as opposed to Soviet weapons.