Not all the Mujahedeen became Taliban, the non-Pashtun Northerners became Northern Alliance - a patchwork of tribes that didn't like getting killed by Pashtun Taliban and fought back.
Poppies have grown in Eurasia forever and a good proportion of the heroin made from them is causing the 'non-existent' (according to Iranian government) border and drug problem in Iran.
Bottom line: while its not that simple, Pakistan is setting itself up for massive failure - that they deserve since they're the ones that incubated the Taliban and sicced them on post-Soviet Afghanistan.
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Poppies have grown in Eurasia forever and a good proportion of the heroin made from them is causing the 'non-existent' (according to Iranian government) border and drug problem in Iran.
Bottom line: while its not that simple, Pakistan is setting itself up for massive failure - that they deserve since they're the ones that incubated the Taliban and sicced them on post-Soviet Afghanistan.
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