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"Afghanistan in it's 1960s [780x544]" by pheexx in HistoryPorn
"Picture from 1960s Afghanistan." by abdulisbest in afghanistan
sweet101052
Well the "westernized" areas of it.
SouthAuckland
and then the fire nation attacked
Yukonbumbleses
I seem to recall very similar pictures of Somalia from more peaceful times
Tentacooler
Then everything changed when the fire nation attacked.
SuperiorSwedesNewAccount
But religion is love, religion is good!
NuxElrod
Toast12456
How much it's changed
ATimeTravellingRobotFromTheFuture
I'll get downvoted for saying it, but everything is better without Islam. It's just a matter of fact.
phoenixsphinx
Amazing how much religion can destroy
mustconsistoflettersandnumbersonly
Consider "money"
BoobiesMeow
God damn Russia!
BenoitBalls
You mran the united states, we funded the Mujahideen. Thanks jimmy carter.
BoobiesMeow
Yes but to fight the Russians who invaded
BenoitBalls
The Russians were proping up a stable democratic government. We did it to spite them.
BoobiesMeow
They looked fine and happy before Russia tried to change anything by invasion
Ephreates
Yep. Before the USSR invaded, and America supported the mujahideen (early taliban) to fight them, who later ruled and ruined the country.
GregKeen
In fairness there had been numerous coups between this and the Russian invasion, they didn't march in to this supposed utopia.
AlbaneinCowboy
2/3 Ahmad Shah Massoud for example was mujahideen, kick massive Russian ass. Killed by taliban on 9/10/01
AlbaneinCowboy
Way more complicated then that and the mujahideen and the Taliban are not the same thing. Yes people who fought did join the Taliban
Ephreates
Totally. 140 characters limits capacity for complexity. Pakistan and ISI also hold a great deal of responsibility for state of Afghanistan.
AlbaneinCowboy
You bet your sweet ass they do!
AlbaneinCowboy
3 Read Wars of Afghanistan, Afghanistan a military history and Taliban by Ahmed Rashid
DontcallmeLen
I can +1 the last book.
AlbaneinCowboy
Some day I hope to be considered an expert on Americas war in Afghanistan