• SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The gov had poor control over the countryside and the Taliban had infiltrated everywhere and was just laying in wait. The irony is they are now fighting another, even more extreme Islamic group, Al Qaeda.

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        1 year ago

        The Taliban, AQ, and DAESH/IS/ISIL/ISIS have very different goals. The Taliban wants a theocracy in Afghanistan they control. AQ wants a caliphate in Mecca and the overthrow of the House of Saud. DAESH/ISIS wants a one world caliphate that they control.