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Not to be that guy, but Obama and both parties in Congress authorized the CIA’s Operation Timber Sycamore to spend billions of US taxpayer dollars to arm the equivalent of the Taliban in Syria. This program fueled the rise of ISIS & Al Nusra and US liberals mostly cheered it on.
As I wrote in my book, The Management of Savagery, when the Taliban imposed its rule on Afghanistan, it taught children w theocratic-themed schoolbooks the USAID funded for the Afghan mujahedin in the 80s. They were made by a CIA program at U of Nebraska. foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/04/27/sav…
On July 9, 1999, a dozen Taliban leaders were flown to the US by the State Department and hosted by longtime CIA asset Thomas Goutiere of the U. of Nebraska for a visit of Mount Rushmore. It was one of many visits they took to the US on the federal dime. chicagotribune.com/nation-world/s… 
The US supported the Taliban throughout the 1990s after the CIA’s traditional Afghan proxies turned half of Kabul to ruin.
Here’s what one US diplomat told journalist Ahmad Rashid about that relationship:
Here’s what one US diplomat told journalist Ahmad Rashid about that relationship:
