Reply #28: The Muj and the Taliban are basically the same people, tho

[jmowreader]

The Soviets did the world one great favor: by giving the Afghan rebels (the Mujahideen forces) someone to all shoot at, they didn't have time to shoot at each other for nearly a decade. (The problem with Middle Eastern wars is, everyone in them is Not Nice People.) After the Soviets left, the Muj, having no one there that needed shootin', decided to start fighting each other. The meanest fuckers in the region were the Taliban, who eventually won the internecine war and became the controlling force in Afghanistan.