Originally posted by WolfHound85
But the biggest event was the funding of the warlords of the Muhjadeen and how they became warlords for the Taliban. Thus I find this topic to be essential in understanding various historic events such as the rise of terrorism and the fall of the soviet union.
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I disagree, not all warlords joined the Taliban coalition. Also, the U.S. funding was not blind and the direct support went to relatively secular groups (by Afghan standards).
The biggest factor in the rise of terrorism was the Afghan civil war that started after the Soviets left. Tens of thousands of Islamic radicals from all over the world moved to Afghanistan. Some moved voluntarily, others were fleeing arrest in their home countries and others were "deported" by their own nations who wanted to get rid of problem people.
Once there, they joined with earlier anti Soviet fighters and were allowed to stay by the Taliban. Not only did they share the same ideology as the Talibans, but the Taliban needed fighters of any kind in their battles with the Alliance warlords. Also, the foreigners quickly realized that it did not take much money in impoverished Afghanistan to buy alot of influence.
Once they started to tthrive, train and expand in Afghanistan, they branched out to Chechneya, Bosnia, Kashmir, etc.